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Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: yijiawang on December 22, 2008, 06:27:17 PM

Title: Pleione sp. titan bulb?
Post by: yijiawang on December 22, 2008, 06:27:17 PM

I never seen so huge bulb of pleione.....who may tell me what species it is? I compare it with 2 Pleione forrestii.thx

Title: Re: Pleione sp. titan bulb?
Post by: johanneshoeller on December 23, 2008, 07:46:20 AM

I think it could be forrestii x grandiflora (wild collected in China)

Title: Re: Pleione sp. titan bulb?
Post by: johanneshoeller on December 23, 2008, 01:09:55 PM

So could it be

Title: Re: Pleione sp. titan bulb?
Post by: Slug Killer on December 24, 2008, 04:54:56 PM

They could just be Pln. forrestii as I've got some bulbs this big in my collection.

David

Title: Re: Pleione sp. titan bulb?
Post by: Maggi Young on December 24, 2008, 05:10:53 PM

Quote from: Slug Killer on December 24, 2008, 04:54:56 PM

They could just be Pln. forrestii as I've got some bulbs this big in my collection.

David

Many years ago, when we spent a year feeding our pleiones generously, we got Pleione forrestii bulbs as big as these... even bigger, some were like apples!  No flowers though, from the giants, just BIG leaves, untill we starved them back to size!!  :-[ :-X

Title: Re: Pleione sp. titan bulb?
Post by: Eric Locke on December 24, 2008, 08:58:15 PM

Hi
Two more possibilities are x Barbarae and Aurita which also, often reach this size.

Eric