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Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: LarsB on May 12, 2010, 09:49:26 PM

Title: Help to identify a Pleione
Post by: LarsB on May 12, 2010, 09:49:26 PM

I've bought this pleione from a serious seller yesterday. We discussed what it was. He had labeled it Plieone chunii, but I've never seen a chunii with such small flowers. It is more like a nice size hookeriana. Even though i can see the resemblance to chunii, especially the sharpe of the bulbs, i've never seen a chunii that small. Can anyone help?

(http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p250/larsdane/pleione/pleione1jpg.jpg)

(http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p250/larsdane/pleione/pleione3jpg.jpg)

(http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p250/larsdane/pleione/pleione6jpg.jpg)


(http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p250/larsdane/pleione/pleione7jpg.jpg)

(http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p250/larsdane/pleione/pleione9jpg.jpg)

Title: Re: Help to identify a Pleione
Post by: ThomasB on May 12, 2010, 09:55:29 PM

The flower looks like Pleione chunii to me - a nice one!  :D

Title: Re: Help to identify a Pleione
Post by: Slug Killer on May 13, 2010, 12:18:38 AM

Normal looking P. chunii.

You say it's small but there is nothing to scale it against in your photo.

David

Title: Re: Help to identify a Pleione
Post by: Maren on May 13, 2010, 09:46:26 PM

It's Pleione chunii.

Title: Re: Help to identify a Pleione
Post by: LarsB on May 15, 2010, 12:16:03 PM

Thank you for the replies. The size is as a hookeriana and the one i had a few years ago was apprixmately twice the size. As it has been considered a synonym for aurita i'd never expected a clone so close to hookeriana in size.

Title: Re: Help to identify a Pleione
Post by: Maren on May 15, 2010, 01:39:34 PM

Hi Lars,

here is one of mine. The pseudobulb of P. chunii is rather pointed and elongated, whereas the pseudobulb of P. hookeriana is small and round. P aurita is quite different altogether.

Here are my own:
P. chunii
P. hookeriana
P. aurita

Title: Re: Help to identify a Pleione
Post by: Slug Killer on May 30, 2010, 04:38:44 PM

Picture of Pleione hookeriana and Pleione chunii next to each other.

Both of these are quite pale clones.