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[DerbyCityNeps]

Does anybody know the parents of Phal. 'Little Mary'. another question......What makes a Miniature Phal. a miniature? Phal 'Little Mary' is pretty small with flowers less than 2 in and leaves are qutie small(only about 3-5 inches). does anybody know?
thanks
alex

 

[herenorthere]

The Royal Horticultural Society says this about the parents: http://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/registerpages/orchiddetails.asp?ID=66540. You'll have to do another grex search to learn the parents of the hybrid parent. There was another "Little Mary" too, but with a third word.

As for what makes a miniature miniature, some species are small. My Phalaenopsis pallens var. denticulata has ~1" blooms and I don't think the leaves reach 4". It wouldn't catch anyone's attention at Home Depot, but it's one of my favorite orchids.

 

[Tony Paroubek]

The Phal. equestris is a small plant with lots of pretty flowers on branched inflorescences.

The other parent in Phal. Little Mary is Phal Mary Tuazon. Which is Phal Reshana x Steven Ai
Phal Reshana is Mistinguett x Elizabeth Marshall
Steven Ai is Lavender Lady x Diamond Pink

Elizabeth Marshall is Gladys Read x Roswell
Lavender Lady is Zada x Best Girl

Gladys Read is Juanita x Grace Palm


and on and on.... and on...

from all that I deduct that your phal. Little Mary is PINK! hehe

 

[DerbyCityNeps]

OH YA ITS PINK! the color is actually a light purple with white horizontal stripes. it has about 4 branches with around 18 opened flowers. i will get a picture soon
thanks to both of you
alex

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

Those small Phals are also called multi florals. Don't ask me why because all Phals have more than one flower, but its used to classify those phals that have a bunch of little flowers and branch compaired to having only a handful of larger flowers on a non branching spike.

 

[herenorthere]

Some Phals have a single flower per stem.

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

A few of the species. I only have one species and its a stuggling bellina. I can't recall any names of the single flowered ones. Although the referance to multifloral has to do with the number of flowers and size rather than having a single vs multiple. Atleast when it comes to phals. That is what I was told by an older orchid grower over at OSF.