The Orchid Garden

Can you identify this flower?

Question:

They are dendrobiums, a kind of orchid commonly used by florists. The purple color is natural, but the blue is dye, like the green carnations for St. Patrick’s day. Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "The trouble with people is not that they don’t know but that they know so much that ain’t so." Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), 1818-1885

Response:

Definitely an Orchid. Probably a Dendrobium hybrid.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I suspect this may be some kind of orchid, but am not sure. My wife brought it home from work – from one of her coworkers who didn’t know what it was. The pictures are not too great – I am not good with macro-photography with my digital camera, but you might see enough detail to tell what it is. The flowers are a gorgeous blue and purple, about 2 inches in diameter. There are several flowers on a stem (the coworker gave her just one stem of the flower from a vase of flowers). http://k_cook.home.mindspring.com/ken/flower1.jpg http://k_cook.home.mindspring.com/ken/flower2.jpg http://k_cook.home.mindspring.com/ken/flower3.jpg

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I suspect this may be some kind of orchid, but am not sure. My wife brought it home from work – from one of her coworkers who didn’t know what it was. The pictures are not too great – I am not good with macro-photography with my digital camera, but you might see enough detail to tell what it is. The flowers are a gorgeous blue and purple, about 2 inches in diameter. There are several flowers on a stem (the coworker gave her just one stem of the flower from a vase of flowers). http://k_cook.home.mindspring.com/ken/flower1.jpg http://k_cook.home.mindspring.com/ken/flower2.jpg http://k_cook.home.mindspring.com/ken/flower3.jpg

I sure can’t, but it sure is pretty. Seeing the leaves might’ve helped. I thought some sort of clematis but the third photo seems to show a thorn along the stem. -paghat — "Flowers are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, & ill-smelling." -Ambrose Bierce Visit the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.angelfire.com/grrl/paghat/gardenhome.html#top

Response:

It looks vaguely like a lisianthus, but I’ve never seen one in that color scheme and it may not even have the right number of petals.

Response:

There is no thorn – sorry the picture isn’t clearer. And there were no leaves on the part given to my wife so we don’t have that to go on either.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I suspect this may be some kind of orchid, but am not sure. My wife brought it home from work – from one of her coworkers who didn’t know what it was. The pictures are not too great – I am not good with macro-photography with my digital camera, but you might see enough detail to tell what it is. The flowers are a gorgeous blue and purple, about 2 inches in diameter. There are several flowers on a stem (the coworker gave her just one stem of the flower from a vase of flowers). http://k_cook.home.mindspring.com/ken/flower1.jpg http://k_cook.home.mindspring.com/ken/flower2.jpg http://k_cook.home.mindspring.com/ken/flower3.jpg I sure can’t, but it sure is pretty. Seeing the leaves might’ve helped. I thought some sort of clematis but the third photo seems to show a thorn along the stem. -paghat — "Flowers are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, & ill-smelling." -Ambrose Bierce Visit the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.angelfire.com/grrl/paghat/gardenhome.html#top

Response:

I suspect this may be some kind of orchid, but am not sure. My wife brought it home from work – from one of her coworkers who didn’t know what it was. The pictures are not too great – I am not good with macro-photography with my digital camera, but you might see enough detail to tell what it is. The flowers are a gorgeous blue and purple, about 2 inches in diameter. There are several flowers on a stem (the coworker gave her just one stem of the flower from a vase of flowers). http://k_cook.home.mindspring.com/ken/flower1.jpg http://k_cook.home.mindspring.com/ken/flower2.jpg http://k_cook.home.mindspring.com/ken/flower3.jpg

Response:

Filed under: Dendrobium Orchid

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