----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Bergstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 6:17 PM Subject: Phrag Brasiliense
> Believe it or not, but all too many years ago I used to be one of the > authorities on the Phragmipediums..Spoke all over the US and even wrote > articles in the Orchid Digest...Days long gone I assure you...Now days the > hybrid breeding is churning them out like postage stamps...BUT..since I used > to (when it was legal) collect them and saw the majority of the species in > the wild...I can still make valid statements...Though there are some > similarities...I can testify that Brasilense is NOT vittatum. I have seen > many pictures from many sources lately (Thank you one and all) and I will > not say that it is a species or not...but vittatum it aint...I remember > buying the last fifty plants from Jorge Verboonen back in the eighties in > Brazil...Easy to spot in bloom from yards away...and all those plants got > distributed throughout the U.S. and were used to make various hybrids, I am > sure...So we have twenty years of possibilities here..Vittatum itself is > quite rare...So not too many folks would be expected to easily recognize it > with out back up material...Bill Bergstrom _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
