hahaha... yes, an unfortunate name.. I do like the blooms and the way this orchid is growing. I bet it gets hugh as it matures.
cheers,
BD
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I have no idea what to think of the individual that named this hybrid but it certainly is pretty.
hahaha... yes, an unfortunate name.. I do like the blooms and the way this orchid is growing. I bet it gets hugh as it matures.
cheers,
BD
lol, love the name. Pretty. Any fragrance?
Not any that I can detect Charity.Any fragrance?
Who's thinking should we be questioning???? Nobody registered an oncidium with that name.
Interesting observation Ray.
It's technically a Gomesa I see, eh?
Just reporting what the tag said but it looks like "Gomesa" and "Oncidium" are synonyms to the AOS so I guess either genus is accepted.
And it is the singular "Shower"
Just can't believe what ends up on tags I guess. Even from the growers.
I didn't pick it out. It was an award.
Ah HAH! It never even occurred to me to drop that "s".
My apologies.
Well you know it was named after TRUMP !!!
Lol!
This kind of oncidium ( varicosa group) is grown in enormous quantities in Thailand etc. for cut flowers. In the markets you will see the stems crammed into buckets with a few hundred spikes in each. They make good cut flowers - the restaurants and coffee shops often have a few sprays on every table. Every orchid nursery and shop has a few plants - they often call them Sweet Sugar, but Golden Showers is a name I have heard too. Technically, used to be called a "hard-bulbed oncidium" ( before DNA was invented ) which gives a clue to their culture - need something of a (short) hard rest to encourage flowering, unlike the soft-bulbed oncidiums which grow non-stop,