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Feb 1, 2020 3:51 PM CST
Name: Big Bill
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It is no simple task Jayce. Your question is so simple yet next to impossible to answer.
Australis presents the best hope that you have towards getting a name for your plant.
Species orchids are much, much easier to put an name to it. Species are often easily recognized. Many books and growers are really familiar with species. But with hybrids, and I am almost positive that this is a hybrid, the task to naming them is nearly impossible.
Standard Cymbidium hybrids may in fact be 4, 5, 6 or even 9 or 10 generational hybrids. There are numerous combinations of genes. To try and figure out which hybrid a particular plant is is a very daunting problem. When you cross A with B and raise 10,000 seedlings, there might be 6-8 predominate seedling results. 500 May look like this, 750 like this, 2,000 like this and so on. These guys could all appear similar but not exactly alike.
Yours is a beautiful rose pink color. In the history of Cymbidium breeding there maybe 50 crosses that look like that, maybe 200, maybe 500! They could resemble each other pretty closely, so close that their own mother couldn't pick out her kid! We have software where we could narrow it down a bit but even if we could get it down to 5 or 6 hybrids, there is almost no way to say with any kind of certainty which cross it is. It is very disappointing I know but that is just the nature of identifying hybrids.
The only decent chance that you have, and it is only a slim chance at best, is if this was a product of mericloning. The process by which some orchids are reproduced. Some one could have made a clone of this hybrid, replicating them by the hundreds, if not thousands, and then you have to hope that some one recognizes it.
To sum it all up, unless it is a widely grown cross, you literally stand a one in a million chance of getting a correct name. You might have people say that it could be this, or it could be that, but honestly they can't be absolutely sure.
Just grow it as a pretty plant and forget about a name.
So sorry! 😢
Orchid lecturer, teacher and judge. Retired Wildlife Biologist. Supervisor of a nature preserve up until I retired.
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