Coelogyne parishii specimen plant

[Ricardo in PR]

Coelogyne parishii is one of the group of green flowered plants of this genus that grows well under warm to intermediate conditions. Its tendency to produce two leads on each pseudobulbs every growing season, when given good care, means you can grow a specimen plant in only a few years. This plant has been with me since 1984 and has survived well all the sort of calamities that commonly sent most orchid plants to the great clay pot in the sky. The green and black flowers are lovely and the plant is much more compact than the large Coe. pandurata or the rambling Coe. mayeriana, both of which are species clsely related to this one.