First bloom from a seedling from Orchids Limited that is just starting to open up (though i've already damaged one of the petals). I'll try to take some better pictures tomorrow, not enough lighting tonight. I though tthe staminode was really interested.

http://www.lienluu.com/sof/fi.JPG

looks like it will be a keeper

looks nice! :clap:

Very nice, do post another photo when it is fully opened. Is it fragrant yet?

Lovely colouring, very nice

I like it :Party:

Add a picture of the whole plant.

I like it :Party:

Add a picture of the whole plant.

This is the plant before the bud opened, i'll take better pics today or tomorrow.

http://www.lienluu.com/sof/fis.jpg

Nice and compact! Well grown.

Very pretty - great color!
I do love the micropetalum species AND many of their hybrids!
Can't wait to see it fully open. Thanks Lien!

Here's a better shot that really shows off the staminode which I think has such a neat shape. I guess it's not supposed to be that shape? But still neat.

http://lienluu.com/sof/fi2.JPG

Very nice, Lien. :clap2: This is definitely on my short list of choices for my first phrag.

I don't smell anything. Is it supposed to be fragrant?

I don't smell anything. Is it supposed to be fragrant?

Lien that is such a gorgeous flower! Love it!
I have Beverly Fischer which is St. Ouen x fischerii I thinkg (there's a pic around here somewhere) and it is raspberry scented most strongly in the morning. Very lovely, and I think inherited from the fischerii.

Yes, fischeri is fragrant during the day especially on a warm humid day.

I want it now! Send it to me!!!! :)

This one is definitely my favorite-looking small phrag.

I don't pay close enough attention. This is a really small plant! I didn't realize that. I figured it was closer to schlimii's size.
Mine looks just like Lien's second photo. :D Hopefully it will bloom!

Oh, and I've finally learned to spell it. One 'i'. How embarrassing!

Okay...here we go. Lovely wee thing...

And now, all together please "Finger's Crossed!!"

(except Tadd, who clearly jinxes me, lol!)

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y134/ahmcd33/fisch.jpg

Looks cute! I like!

Oooohhhh I am jealous!!!!! No jinxes or hexes here.....

I thought I would just add, that the spike on this plant really reminds me in it's wirey way of Mexipedium xerophyticum. And the size of the bud. I'm curious to see how this turns out. Never seen one in person.

I've been thinking about this all day and wondering how close the DNA is on these two. Besk? Anyone?

Hi Heather, nice looking plant i didnt think they were that small . Did you get your plant from Orchid's Limited ? This plant was named after Jerry Fischer. He was the one that found it in shipment of diffrent stuff he got, quite awhile ago.


Hi Lien, very nice color on your flower.

Hi:

Is your plant's staminode folded like that of Paph micranthum, or is it just narrow?

Besk

Hi:

Is your plant's staminode folded like that of Paph micranthum, or is it just narrow?

Besk

I was looking at that too. It looks to me as if the actual staminode is completely missing.

RZu.

I was looking at that too. It looks to me as if the actual staminode is completely missing.

RZu.

But if that's the case, what's the yellow?

I'll try to find out from Lien, he's been busy w/ school lately, so not posting/reading much at all.

But if that's the case, what's the yellow?

The two yellow "spots" one can see on the second flowerphoto is part of the colouration of the involded edge of the pouch.

RZu.

Okay, having not seen up close and personal yet, just looking at photos online just now, I haven't seen anything else that really captured that part. Staminoid is always sort of "in the way".

I guess I'll have my chance soon enough to check it out. :)
Thanks Rob.

The staminode is always covering up this part of the pouch indeed.

Yes, you have a very nice plant there. And I throughly hope that this one has a staminode. I mean I would like my Phrags to be complete and have seen lots en lots of photos of fischeri's without staminode. Don't know what causes this. Could be that the plants that are around in cultivation originate from just a very few plants of which one had a genetic defect ?!

RZu.

Or could it be as with exstaminodium, and the fact that they self pollinate (which I did not know until just the other day)? Perhaps Robert-Jan will weigh in on this?

Mine's working on opening - but shipping has caused it a bit of trauma I'm afraid.
Hopefully it will hold on, and I think there is another behind it.

Well, the staminoid on mine is strange, but it isn't open enough to tell what is going on.
But at least it is finally opening. Color looks good. These photos are wretched, I'll try again under different light tonight.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y134/ahmcd33/53492349.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y134/ahmcd33/f97cd0b2.jpg

H, what light is that? Did the SO compromise? Can't wait to see your baby open!

Nah, they're just some crummy comfact CFLs (Is that redundant?)
I would say they aren't great, but they're something, and things are spiking and blooming so...

Okay, this is the best I could get today. Still opening. We're in for a week of clouds, so I don't know I'll be able to improve the lighting too much. The staminoid is just bizarre. I don't know what is going on with that!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y134/ahmcd33/fischeri.jpg

Looks good Heather :clap2:

looking good! Don't you have a flash on that camera?

looking good! Don't you have a flash on that camera?

Yes, that was taken w/ the flash on but covered w/ a business card. With the full flash on, it was too bright and overexposed. Without the flash, much blurrier.

Without the flash, much blurrier.

if you can mount the camera on a tripod or other stand, without the flash should not be blurry

Try waxed paper and a rubber band over the flash