Leptotes bicolor

[Sue]

I've got two of these blooming right now. One is less robust, less floriferous, but has better color and slightly fuller form. The other one, however, puts out five blooms on a spike, and put out a total of 13 spikes this season.

[Piper]

Gorgeous! Do you have closeups of the flowers?

Julie

[Tindomul1of9]

wow! I really like it. Did you mount it yourself?

[Hoa Tony Nguyen]

I like the second plant much better! Cute!
I heard that there are not many species in Leptotes genera (maybe around 5)?
Cheers. Hoa.

[Sue]

wow! I really like it. Did you mount it yourself?

Sounds dirty.

The first one showed up stuck to that stick. The second one (the big one) was mounted to a different stick which rotted out a few weeks ago while it was setting bud, so I had to remount it, which set the plant back a bit. Lost about half the blooms. The show would have been much more impressive otherwise.

Oh, and Hoa, I think that's right; about five, best I know at least. L. bicolor is most common, but L. unicolor isn't too uncommon in cultivation. I've seen one, maybe two other species in cultivation.

[Piper]

Seven species:

bicolor
harryphillipsii
mogyensis
pauloensis
pohlitinocoi
tenuis
unicolor

They really need more work on their naming!

Julie

[Hoa Tony Nguyen]

Many of those names sound so uncool! They ought to work more on that!
Only 7 species, a small increase over 5 that I once knew!
Thanks, Julie!
Cheers. Hoa.