Blc. Hawaiian Leopard "Mei-Ling"

[ctb]

Thanks guys, It's a keeper and it does seem to be getting better with each bloom, altho I opened the lip and it's not even the same shape so will wonder and watch. Thanks for your comments and research. Time will tell and maybe someone will see it and have this lip.

[Jef09071984]

I like the color of spot. :-)

[trevor05]

The color is perfect and the freckles.. lovely!!~

[Horst]

It is difficult to determent if your plant is or isn't Blc. Hawaiian Leopard "Mei-Ling".
The color and the spots on sepals and petals seems to match with other images on the www.
Definitely the lip has a problem. It doesn't match. Sometimes clones get defects, specially if it is a clone made from a clone.
If it is Blc. Hawaiian Leopard "Mei-Ling" your plant has such a defect, or as other member mentioned it is a hybrid made with Blc. Hawaiian Leopard "Mei-Ling". By the way the genus changed to Rhynchobrassoleya (Rby.) Hawaiian Leopard "Mei-Ling".

Hi Carol, I am not sure the name is right on your tag. Blc. Hawaiian Leopard has a darker orange color usually and many spots as well as a large lip. Or maybe this one is peloric or something? IDK. Here are a couple on the forum for you to compare yours too:

http://www.rv-orchidworks.com/orchid...n-leopard.html

http://www.rv-orchidworks.com/orchid...n-leopard.html

Regardless of the name, it is a pretty orchid bloom. And the color is so clean and bright. I wish I had it.

cheers,
BD

[zainal abidin]

Very nice and love the spots on it.

[poetiscariot]

The spots and patterning look right, but the lip really is such a strange shape. Mine's in bloom right now, and every time it's bloomed, it's looked just like pictures for the clone that turn up in a web search. I just put up photos of mine at http://www.rv-orchidworks.com/orchid...-mei-ling.html if you want to see.