To Guido and whoever else may be interested, Phrag. richteri was originally discovered in the state of Amazonas Peru in the late 1980's 87 or 88 I believe. It was first brought to light on the international scene by Manuel Arias. Ray Rands gave it the trade name of Phrag. amazonicum. It also went by the name Phrag. species Amazonas Peru. I imported some in 1988 and received an award of merit from the American Orchid Society on one called 'Amazon Queen' unfortunately it was awarded as a pearcei at the time. Now no pearcei will ever be able to be awarded as the Amazon queen was such a large flower for the type. Later the plant was named Phrag. richteri. It has always been my belief that this plant was a natural hybrid or at least from a somewhat stabilized population of hybrids between pearcei and boisserianum. I did self the 'Amazon Queen' and had a variety of seedlings bloom. Some did gravitate towards more of a pearcei look to the plants and flowers while others grew to be just like the 'Amazon Queen clone. None, however looked anything like a boisserianum. The interesting thing is that I did import these a couple of times and there were very little differences between plants. They all had the same appearance in leaf size and width and the flowers were very similar as well.
I made the hybrid Franz Glanz using a yellow besseae. These were very beautiful. Here is a link to a photo: http://www.orchidweb.com/dtl_hybr.asp?PRecno=1106 Jerry Lee Fischer, Orchids Limited _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
