Hi, Bihai,

Sounds intriguing. Your pix aren't showing up, though.

Whitecat8

That looks like a little piece of heaven.

Beautiful pictures!

Sc

No idea but I agree that just looks like a marvelous area!

I think it might be difficult to id, unless you have more clues, such as if you know it is a species. Sometimes the source of the plant helps narrow it down.

I am not knowledgeable about phals by any means, but it looks very much like an equestris, except that I don't know if equestris comes with that kind of uniform striping. (There are lots of white-pink variation of equestris.) The striping reminds me of lindenii. A cross between the two is another possibility (Venus). Then, of course, there are probably any number of hybrids that might turn out with flowers like that....

But flowers aside, are there any phals that are known to have this particular trait of being stoloniferous?

I will try to get better pics to illustrate this. All my other phals produce new plants very close to the mother, wuth only a very short thick fleshy bridge of stem in between. This one is truly stoloniferous

I definitely think there is Phal equestris in this plant, if not pure species. Phal equestris is known to have such variability that it wouldnt' surprise me in the slightest if this was pure equestris. This species is also very well-known for being incredibly adept at throwing out countless keikis.

Here is a better photo showing the stolons.
Its a little blurry on the flower, but you've already seen the flower...
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This is Phal pulchra. AT first I thought that this other plant could be Phal pulchra, but the leaves are very very different and the stolon not as long. You can see where there are 2 separate plants here divided by a stolon about 3 inches long, my fingers are under it. Its about to bloom, when it opens I'll compare the flowers to the mystery Phal

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and this is a younger Phal pulchra that has just thrown a stolon with Keiki
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When I look at the last batch of pictures I see keikis on your equestris type plant. The stolons are spikes that produced keikis instead of blooms.

Phal. pulchra is famous for it's keikis but obviously the equestris type does it too.

I've shown this plant before so apologies for the repeat but this is Phal. pulchra. The original plant is at the very top and all other plants are keikis still attached to each other. {{gwi:143422}}

Brooke

Bihai,

Your added pictures certainly illustrate your point. I was following the same track as Brooke, thinking that these were simply spikes spreading the plant, keiki by keiki.

It may seem a fine point, but if (as it appears from your last photos) the "spikes" arise from the bases of the plants, and Not from leaf axils, then they truly ARE stolons.

It is very interesting that you have two different plants doing this. I can't find any references to stoloniferous Phals, but many of you have done more study in this than I.

Wouldn't it be wonderfully exciting if you have found something utterly new, or even an existing state in Phalaenopsis that was overlooked or not described when they were first reported?!!

Sweetcicely

P.S. How about some P. aphrodite influence, accounting for flower shape and that double toothed lip...

I searched in the Christensen phal book and couldn't find any info on equestris being a keiki producer but did find a reference in the pulchra section. The following is a quote from the book

"pulchra produces two kinds of inflorescences: very long inflor. to more than a meter in length and very short inflor. much shorter than the leaves. The long inflor. sometimes flower but more frequently they do not hold flowers but instead produce apical plantlets. These apical plantlets, either left attached to the parent plant or seperated and placed in a separate growing container, typically flower with short infor. The only other species of phals that consistently produces apical plants is equestris."

My plant pictured above does exactly this long vs short - flowers on the short and produces keikis on the long.

Congrats bihai, it appears you do have equestris and can enjoy quite a show as it continues to spread and multiply.

Brooke

That's interesting, I was not aware there were stoloniferous phals - cute little Neoregelia sharing that log.

Awesome looking "habitat" as usual!

Looks like lots of equestris in the background to me! Mine all produce long stems with flowers, then keikis, or just flowers, or just keikis at the end of them. I try to bend the stem over and stake down to take root, seems to work better that letting the keiki roots grow long then cutting them off and repotting.

Sharon

Thank you all! I am glad to know what it is!

I forgot to add, (and this is probably the BEST part, LOL) that this plant (equistris) was a snag from HOME DEPOT a few years ago. The pulchra I bought at the FSU sale.