luvpaphs
April 14th, 2005, 12:58 PM
Hi, does anyone have this phal or have seen it in bloom:
Phal. I-Hsin Dalmation (ever-spring king x I-Hsin hatsuyuki)
I do have a picture of it, looks very different and interesting. White flowers with large blotches of plum on each petal. Hence the name "Dalmation"
:-dance:
Littlefrog
April 14th, 2005, 01:22 PM
Hi, does anyone have this phal or have seen it in bloom:
Phal. I-Hsin Dalmation (ever-spring king x I-Hsin hatsuyuki)
I do have a picture of it, looks very different and interesting. White flowers with large blotches of plum on each petal. Hence the name "Dalmation"
:-dance:
I've seen Everspring King... You have what is currently being called a 'Harlequin' type phal. I have a couple of these (for sale, even! *grin*), here are some pictures:
http://littlefrogfarm.com/shop/images/ChainXenPearl_web.jpg
Phal. Chain Xen Pearl
http://littlefrogfarm.com/shop/images/ChainXenDiamond_web.jpg
Dtps. Chain Xen Diamond 'Celebration' FCC/AOS
Some of the interesting harlequins have the dalmation pattern you describe, where every flower has a different pattern of red or purple 'blotching'. Sometimes that can be pleasing. Sometimes it is awful. The form has really improved on the harlequin type phals over the last 3 or 4 years, the original ones were terrible.
RickL
April 15th, 2005, 11:05 AM
Norman Fang has really been pushing the harlequin phal envelope. I have one of his plants now. Can't remeber the name, but sounds like your description. Random purple blotches on white backround.
I didn't take any pictures of the flower when it was in bloom last time, but it is respiking off the old spike, so should have blooms soon.
luvpaphs
April 15th, 2005, 01:16 PM
May I ask two questions. Excuse my lack of knowledge here but what are "harlequin" orchids and "mericlone" orchids?
:D
RickL
April 15th, 2005, 05:12 PM
Harlequin is a color variety that has blothes of color (not normally symetrical either). It can apply to all colored organisms. I've seen it applied to allot of fish and parakeet varieties.
Mericlone is when the plant breeders clone a bunch of new plants from a cell source (the meristem) of a parent plant to make a bunch of new plants identical to the parent.