Very nice, Geoff. What temperature do you grow it? We don’t have much luck with
Phaius types but we do like them.
Tricia
On Wed 27 Mar 2019 , at 8:18:PM, Geoffrey Hands (Redacted sender
"geoff.hands" for DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gastrophaius Dan Rosenberg. Plants with this label are always floating round
the sales table at one of my Orchid Societies , and even as raffle prizes. I
got one several years ago - it never showed any sign of flowering ( which
explained why it was so often seen, I guess). Eventually I divided it, and
gave both parts a good strip down and repot - last summer I think. Both parts
have now flowered. 5 inch flowers, 5 on the (better) spike . btw they were
wrongly labelled as Joseph Rosenberg, but Dan R.. is correct. A hybrid from
Phaius tankervilliae, it grows outside in the warmer US states - so people
out there post pics of great clumps with dozens of spikes. Still, if flowers
in UK are as rare as I think, any spike is good over here !
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