Tiger Morning seedlings, part 2

Below are pics from Tiger Morning seedlings "B" and "C". As you can see, Tiger Morning "B" is quite similar to Tiger Morning "A" (earlier post), except that the brown-red (anthocyanin) pigment is more pronounced at the petal base and mid-rib, and even more so along the lip's side-lobes. I like "A" better than "B".




























Tiger Morning "C" is not albescent, as are "A" and "B". You can clearly see the anthocyanin pigment.














Greig Russell published an article in the Cymbidium Society of America journal (Jan.-Feb., 3(1):6-11, 2003) on the topic of albescent Cymbidiums. Russell states that:
i) Albescent and Albinistic refer to plants which show a significant degree of reduction in normal anthocyanin production;
ii) Alba is a useful term for anthocyanin-free plants, especially where cattleyas are concerned; most alba cattleyas being white. Unfortunately many alba cymbidiums are green; and
iii) Concolor refers to plants having the lip similarly coloured to the tepals and are not necessarily anthocyanin deficient.

There have been several articles published in the orchid journals describing the similarities and differences between albescent, alba and concolor. Perhaps this will be a topic for a future post, but I need to do more research on this topic beforehand.

Back to Tiger Morning--all three plants yield upright inflorescences with well-spaced, nicely shaped and wonderfully fragrant flowers. The plants are reasonably compact intermediates, and grow well for this climate in that they haven't shown undue heat stress during their Summer growing season outdoors. While I don't think these are AOS award quality, they are good pot plants, and may be useful for continued hybridizing.