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Beautiful flowers and photos! Thanks for posting!

Love the subtle colors. Thanks!!!! :clap: :clap:

Very nice. Do these only have one flower, or will there be more?

Marcus, they are all sequential bloomers, so one bloom at a time on single spikes and some species like richteri produces branching spikes.

Uh oh! Quick someone call 911 Couscious has got it bad..... Beautiful photo, looks so natural for a hybrid! Marcus is lost to the darkside...errr ... phragside... :poke:

Paphiogrower,

I love the twists and the pastel colors

Thanks

very nice :clap:

Paphiogrower

Your christensenianum looks very much like a plant I have labled richteri (but it is intermediate in size between some pearcei and richteri i've seen). Is the spike stem hairy? What are the flower and leaf dimensions?

Do you know the parents or source of your plant?

You can find the pictures of the true Phrag. christiansenianum on the following page.

http://www.orchid.or.jp/orchid/people/tanaka/orchid/org/shinshu/Phrag/ennew2.html

The pictures (a little bit too dark) were made from the type.

Best greetings

Olaf

Thanks Olaf

I also have the article you did for Orchid Digest. I am trying to get some dimensions to also compare to my plant. Is the non-hirsute stem always characteristic of this species?

Do you know any clonal names for christensenianum?

That is really nice

Dear Rick,
noc clonal names are known. I think that this species is so rare that it was never shown in exhibitions or for judging.
The inflorescence is always nonhirsute.

About the dimension of the plant and flower.

The leaves are around 30 cm long and 1.2 cm wide.

The dorsal sepal is 5.2 cm long and 1.9 cm wide, the synsepal is 4.2 cm long and 2.8 cm wide, the petals 8.4 cm long and near 1 m wide. The lip is 4.2 cm long and 1.8 cm wide.
I had the possibility to analyze 4 plants. This is not enough to imagine the whole variability of this species.

Best greetings

Olaf

Dear Phragmipedium-friends,
in my last contributions I have forgotten to clear the name.

The official name of the species is Phragmipedium christiansenianum
named in honour of Hans Christiansen from Danmark who has cultivated the typeplant and who has propagated artificially this species.

The naming (not the description) of the plant was also a gift for Hans when he had his 50th birthday.

Very often the name was written shorter and then somebody makes the mistake to believe that it was described in honour for Eric.

Best greetings

Olaf

Thanks for the great info, Olaf! :D

Thanks Very Much Olaf

:clap: lovely

Just wanted to share paphiogrower's reply to my question.

paphiogrower wrote:
The christiansenianum is kind of sequencial and 5 or 6 flowers that will be about 4 months blooming. Another has senquencial flowers but will be about 6 months blooming. (2 species is very is to polinize and the seedpot is mature in 2 months )