Flasks of Stanhopea hernandezii 'Natural Selections' × self

Comments: Parent plant: Abundant pleasant fragrance. Very dark pigmentation.

For additional origin/habitat information supplied courtesy of Charles and Margaret Baker, see further below, near the bottom of this page.

Temperatures we attempt to use in the lab & greenhouse:

For Species:		Spring, Summer, Autumn: days average 80°F, nights 58°F; best fit is Cool-Intermediate 75-58°F (Source: Baker's Web OSC)
For Species:		Winter: days average 77°F, nights 47°F; best fit is Cool 70-52°F (Source: Baker's Web OSC)

About the name...

Etymology of	hernandezii	In honor of Francisco Hernandez, who made the first known European illustration of any Stanhopea, calling this plant by its Aztec name, Coatzonte Coxochitl. This work was done between 1570 and 1575. (Source: Greer 1998)
Etymology of	Stanhopea	In honor of Philip Henry, 4th Earl of Stanhope, president of the London Medico-Botanical Society during the early part of the 19th century. (Source: Pridgeon 1992)
Pronunciation of	hernandezii	her-NAN-dez-ee-eye (Source: Hawkes 1978)
Pronunciation of	Stanhopea	stan-HOPE-ee-ah (Source: Pridgeon 1992)

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Flask Information
Availability:	We have sold all of the flasks for this item.
You should:	Consider getting individual plants or compots instead of a flask. You can place a "Notify Flask Recipients" Request, and either we or a flask recipient may contact you when plants are available. You may also place a "Notify Retries" Request, and if an identical pollination (the same parents) is done again, we'll let you know. You may reserve a flask, but it's very unlikely you'll get one ...this could only happen if we found a flask that we didn't know we had.
Yield Estimate:	210 plants (based on flask surveys done 09/13/2007 ) Yield estimates are only approximate, but may appear to be fairly exact numbers because they are a combination of large rough estimates in remaining mother flasks and more accurate small estimates in reflasks.
Plantlet Sizes:	From many flasks 3 - 100 mm plants (based on flask surveys done 09/13/2007 through 06/10/2008) From one most recently surveyed flask 40 - 90 mm (06/10/2008)
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The origin/habitat information below is supplied courtesy of Charles and Margaret Baker

The following information is based on the name of the plant provided by the donor, and assumes that the name is correct. If the plant has been misidentified, then the following information may not be correct.
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ORIGIN/HABITAT: Mexico and Guatemala. In Guatemala, plants identified as S. devoniensis Lindley were growing epiphytically on trees and on rocks in forests at elevations up to 6250 ft. (1900 m). In Mexico, plants previously known as S cavendishii Lindley have been found in the states of Veracruz, Hidalgo, Puebla, Morelos, Michoacan, Oxaca, and Chiapas. Although S hernandezii was the first Stanhopea discovered in Mexico, details of habitat location and elevation are amazingly lacking in the literature. In his 1975 Orchid Digest article, George Kennedy reported finding this species in the mountains some 18 miles (30 km) south of Chilpanzingo (Chilpancingo) in the state of Guerrero on the road to Acapulco. He stated that he was later unable to find additional specimens of this species in the relatively low passes along this highway in this region but indicated that plants were reportedly more numerous in the higher, better-watered, but relatively inaccessible areas of this mountain range to as far north as Tepic. Habitat elevation in Mexico has not been reported, so we have estimated it at 5500 ft. (1680 m) based on the reported elevation in nearby Guatemala. The conditions indicated in the following table should be used somewhat cautiously, however.
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