Hello everyone, Has anyone ever seen a variety of phal lindenii that was called 'blue' that the leaves did not have the normal characteristics, ie dark green, greyish mottling overlay on top and darker mostly reddish underneath? I'm asking just in the slight chance that there is something like that out there, but my assumption is that when someone was labeling a flask way back when, they meant to write phal violacea 'blue' and about then the caffeine from their morning coffee ran out and they wrote 'lindenii'. The vendor I purchased them from is extremely reliable and will not hesitate to take the plant back or switch for another/others, just covering all the bases.
Peter wrote: 9b) (or something close to that) "these plants will only get destroyed by a parking lot so why not take them now?" - this isn't a negative comment about your post, just that it is unfortunately fairly accurate that they would get placed under a strip mall or something like that at some point, but not saying that that is a justification at all for digging them up. Quite the opposite! I heard of one spot of a fairly large population of a quite rare species in the general mid-atlantic states area that ended up underneath a sport-bass fishing lake. All depends on where the money is coming from... and I don't think the state of kentucky is too concerned about plants, but I hope they prove me wrong! later, charles Charles Ufford Oriskany _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
