Guido, your message gives me great heart that someone other that my self ( as a mainly hybrid grower ) is concerned with what parents are being used to produce the seedlings I wish to purchase. With the time I have spent in orchids, I have seen the flowering of many hundreds of seedlings of many different genera. It never ceases to amaze me what comes out. As you stated, many plants used in breeding are not what is on the label ( or conveniently changed ) because of the REMAKES done by a nursery other than the originator, in recent times quoting " using exact same parents" and of course they look 'something' like the original. In primary hybrids of any genera and subsequent breeding, one must face the fact that what you have is just that. To determine the exact parents may be pure chance. I still hold the fact that there are very few orchid growers in the world that are dishonest, they have just been victums of the miss use of names/varieties/forma and cannot be condemned. we just have to make the best of it. IE forget the RHS registrations and use them for what they are, a list of names. ROY
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