Schomburgkia rosea

[walingwaling]

Nice one, Geoff! this genus is not often seen here.

[Halloamey]

Lovely ! I like Schoms, at got some this year at the WOC. I hope mine bloom like yours some day.

[cdayinflorida]

pretty

[eorchids]

Beautiful, bravo.

[tucker85]

Beautiful!

[Rosa02]

Your plant is an exceptional form of the species - and I bet if it grew 5ft spikes it will intimidate the rest of your collection into hybernation. In my valley (east coast of Africa) plants easily grow that size and I must admit it sometimes becomes a problem, especially if you have a Den in a small pot with all these long shoots and 3 or 4 spikes with 20+ flowers on each. My Schom seems to be getting very excited about climbing out of the pot too.

[Brutal_Dreamer]

For me, Geoff, I would have shared this in the cattleya, vanda, dendrobium section of the forum but here in other genera is equally acceptable as well. Lovely blooms, Sir!!

cheers,
BD

Attachment 50639Attachment 50641Attachment 50642


As a matter of general interest do you think Bruce ( when you get around to reading this) that a Schom' should be in this forum , or in the Cattleyas ? It's a point I often wonder about in most of the forums . ( For those not quite so taxonomically minded, Schomburgkia is a very close relative - both are in the same grouping - the Laeliniae ).

Two spikes here - I'm thrilled - they are so rarely seen in UK, and then usually on plants newly imported. I have had this plant three years now and I knew it was doing better when it produced two leads...I have a couple of other species also doing well, one of which ( S. moyambae also produced two leads and two spikes, but a slug found them whilst I was away in January, and there is not much in the way of flower bud left. The bulbs are OK - these plants are carved from mahogany or something similar, I doubt if a slug could touch a bulb - although a new growth might be a bit more tender).
However, stop wandering off the point Geoff... S.rosea has flowers 2 inch across, and the raceme or whatever it is ( I'm forgetting my basic botany now ! ) is on stems 15-20 inches long, above bulbs which are 8-10 inch high. Not big by Schomburgkia standards , I have seen them in Venezuela with flower stems five feet long and flowers twice this size - but don't know what species that was ( wish I did ! ) - I might just get them in my greenhouse, and would certainly like to try !.

[mazlani]

Excellent blooms! Love the waxy petals .