Epidendrum ciliare
Flowers 12cm high (getting on for 5 inches). I love the colouring of this one – the sharp lime green and white with that fabulous fringed lip. However, when it was judged ( on the previous flowering) at my Orchid Soc. they marked it right down, and feeling a bit aggrieved I looked at the images in Orchidwiz . I then had to admit that completely flat flowers, without those crab-pincer like laterals, are not uncommon, and of course people have shown great big plants with lots of leads and multiple spikes ( wild collected ? ) making my single growth young plant , seed-raised, look a bit underwhelming. Mind you , a lot of the ones in Orchidwiz , some awarded, have much less inspiring colours, some yellow, some nearer the colour of a brown envelope . So I retreat to telling myself that all judging is artificial anyway. Why is a flat flower any better than a cup-shaped one ? Why is a flower with wide petals better than a starry one ? We don’t want all flowers to be bred to be saucers do we ? These are just an arbitrary set of standards , so there….
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Originally Posted by Lars.Kurth
