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Old 05-15-2008, 08:11 PM
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Orchidementia, I don't mean to rain on your noid-naming parade and I do think there's a good possibility that the Crawshayara is probably correct, but IDing noid hybrids from web photos is really a very tenuous and unreliable practice for a few reasons:

1) A photo captures one flower from one plant on one flowering and doesn't express the entire range of posibilities for that flower. For example, check out the three different appearances of the hybrid Phal Princess Kaiulani in this recent thread., the 7 different colour variations of this one cross, or look at the how different the flowers on one of my plants came out from one year to the next: Orchids du Jour.

In short one cross or even one plant can exhibit a great deal of variation.

2) Many hybrids look similar. For example there are literally hundreds of white hybrid Phals, probably almost as many pink or candy striped.

So as you can see, with plants of the same cross looking different and with different cross all looking the same, it becomes impossible to ID a tagless plant, and doing so from a single photo, or any photo(s), is unreliable at best.

Noids are noids. They still flower and are pretty and rewarding to grow and flower, but it's better ato leave them be noids than to have wrong tags in the post. If an orchid is a noid at least we're sure it is what it is.
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