Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: Paul Cumbleton on November 25, 2010, 08:14:17 AM
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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!
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Very, very nice.
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Exciting news Paul !
Thanks for sharing ! :D
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Wonderful, amazing, :o :o :o
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Very, very cool
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So lovely :D Thanks Paul ;)
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That's very interesting. I wonder if someone local would be able to collect seed and grow it legally. :) Thank you for sharing.
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That is realy fantatstic to see. We can reed about it but when there are pictures like these to show the real plants, that is smashing. Thanks Paul.
Sowing yellow P. scopulorum would be a very special addition to the range of yellow flowered Pleione.
It could be possible. As I can see in the second picture, the flower most to the left looks like it has a developping seedpod. Polination is happening.
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Thank you so much for showing these - I've been rather captivated by the idea of yellow scopulorum since reading of it in the Cribb book many years ago, but was never entirely convinced that such a thing actually exists....