Orchid show, danjiang university (pix)

[Hans Breuer]

Hi everyone,

this morning me and my wife visited our local university's annual orchid show.
It was only one large room, but (at least in our laypeople's eyes) very, very nice.
I put some pictures online (three pages) for y'all to ogle.
Sorry I didn't jot down any names, but maybe you'll recognize a few

 

[Trent]

Thanks for sharing, Hans. My favorites: the Cycnoches hybrid (wish you knew what is was), and all the Bulbos-especially the specimen plant.
There's some fine Paph breeders there on the island-not everything is Phals! Do you know if they're located up in the central mountains where nights are cooler? There's some fine forms of P. sanderianum in Taiwan.

 

[Hans Breuer]

Hi Trent,

there's orchids everywhere here indeed, and the whole countryside in the southern half of Taiwan is littered with orchid shadehouses.

I'm not sure where exactly the paphs are bred, but I do know of a nursery in the Central Mountains that specialize in cooler-growing tropical plants (e.g. highland nepenthes), so I would imagine there might be other people up there cultivating paphs, too.

As to the bulbos: the prize-winning pink hybrid's called "Elizabeth Ann". I know that for sure because I bought one for four bucks on the way out