Ian Butterfield’s and Philip Cribbs’s book ‘The Genus Pleione’ tells us that a single collection of Pleione scopulorum by Frank Kingdon Ward in northern Burma almost a century ago was yellow in colour. Given the political situation there I never thought I would ever see a yellow scopulorum in my lifetime, even if they still exist there. My jaw literally dropped therefore when I opened up a couple of pictures sent to me by a friend to find yellow scopulorums!! What is more, these were from northern India.
My friend had been in India previously when he found populations of both pink and white Pleione scopulorum. These were significant in themselves as this species has only been recorded once before from India. He visited again this year and found the yellow ones, which were 300 miles away from the populations he had seen the previous year. Quite correctly he collected only pictures which I show here for you with his permission. Enjoy!
