Funny, Phal mannii was my very first Phalaenopsis back in the mid 1970s. In fact it was my first orchid that had a name. It didn't look like this though. This one looks like a leopard or something. At the time when I got my mannii I had told my very understanding mother to get me a yellow Phalaenopsis so she phoned a big breeder in southern Sweden and asked for a yellow species Phalaenopsis. That's how it it all started with me growing almost only species until today.