Description
An attractive, slightly variable hybrid raised (we think in the Netherlands) by the application of an unknown species (as pollen) onto Calanthe brevicornu as the female parent. The strain of brevicornu used seems to have been the westerly, red-coloured, Himalayan plant with broad petals which is now acknowledged to be true brevicornu (as opposed to the eastern forms, now regarded as another species, C.lamellosa). There is, to my eye, little trace of the second parent in the hybrid which appears, to all intents, to be well within the range of variation of the straight species. Perhaps it has a slightly differing lip shape, perhaps not.
This makes large, sweetly fragrant flowers with pink coloured lips and side petals in darker shades of pink and purple infused with bronze. These are made on stout stems quite late in the Calanthe season, certainly after the main spring flush of flowers is over.
Calanthe brevicornu is totally hardy with us here and the indications are that the hybrid is every bit as hardy. The plants certainly make very vigorous growth and good increase and they have been outside here, unprotected from winter cold or rains, for many years.
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