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Old 04-15-2008, 07:45 AM
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You've got a nice collection there! I'm a huge Paph fan so I'm especially impressed with your taste in Paphs. You've got good variety and some beautiful flowers! I'm looking forward to seeing your flowers.

There are some mistakes in a few of your plant names though so here are a few corrections:

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Originally Posted by myorchid View Post
Paph st swithin
I love this cross and mine just recently finished flowering. The name should be capitalized though like this: Paph St Swithin. It's a hybrid and hybrid names are all capitalized.
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Paph Rasin Jack x Black Hawk x Black Currant
An orchid can have only 2 direct parents so this cross is either:
Paph (Rasin Jack x Black Hawk) x Black Currant, or it's
Paph Rasin Jack x (Black Hawk x Black Currant).
Does the tag say which is which?
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Paph Maudiae coloratum
The first part makes sense: Paph Maudiae. It's a very famous hybrid, but the second part, coloratum doesn't go with the first part. I'm not really sure what the coloratum is there for.
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Vanda mokara (yellow)
Both Vanda and Mokara are generic names (genus) though they are expressed here as if Vanda was the species name and mokara was the species name. I'm retty sure what you have is a yellow noid Mokara.
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Dendrobium phalenopsis (pink)
The correct name for this species is Den. biggibum.
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