Orchid of the day: Leptotes bicolor 'Khairul Bariah'

Leptotes bicolor 'Khairul Bariah'

This is our 17 year old Leptotes bicolor 'Khairul Bariah', which was awarded the Certificate of Cultural of Merit (CCM) by the American Orchid Society (CCM/AOS) in 2015, hence the name Leptotes bicolor 'Khairul Bariah' (yours truly...). Another of our Brazilian beauty, which always blooms at this time of the year. My last post was about our Leptotes pohlitinocoi and you can clearly see how the purple color is distributed differently in this particular specimen. More white than purple, that is.

A) This photo was taken on March 12th. We anticipated about 85 flowers at this time.

B) A different angle. Buds still closed.

C) Beautiful warm weather on March 18th. Almost all the flowers had opened that day.

D) View from below.

E) This specimen seemed to adjust quite well after Arne transplanted it to a bigger piece of bark.

F) Today, March 25th, all flowers in bloom.

G) A gorgeous specimen after 17 years of care.

If you are interested to see the 'evolution' of this particular Leptotes bicolor 'Khairul Bariah', please click on these links from my earlier posts.(March 16th, 2014; March 29th, 2015; April 4th, 2015; April 3rd, 2016)

H) A zoom of the individual flowers again.

This is definitely one of my favourite orchid in our collection. It is amazing and I believe it will continue to be kind to us and repay our care with more flowers next year.

Have a great weekend my friends! And stay safe.