Talk:Phalaenopsis

message: "Hemicr. or cham." on the species list - could this be explained, or removed! - MPF 7 July 2005 10:32 (UTC)
:These abbreviations refer to the terminology of particular lifeforms of plants :
* hemicryptophyte (abbr.: hemicr.) : plants with herbaceous stems. These stems die off after the growing season, while the shoots survive at soil level (e.g. : Aster)
* chamaephyte (abbr. cham.) : plants with herbaceous and/or woody stems, that persist for several years. Their buds are on soil level or just above; but never above 50 cm (e.g. : Alyssum).
This terminology is to be found at World checklist of Monocotyledons - Kew  JoJan 7 July 2005 13:25 (UTC)
:Thanks; maybe (since all seem to be the same in the genus) the terms could be moved from the species list to the paragraph describing the genus? - MPF 7 July 2005 14:16 (UTC)
::Done JoJan 7 July 2005 17:08 (UTC)
Are the terms hemicryptophyte and chamaephyte at all appropriate for these tropical evergreen epiphytic orchids?  The terms seem to refer to  deciduous terrestrial plants of the temperate zone, and to distinguish where, relative to the "soil level," live buds persist after much of the plant has died back in winter.  Jay L09 (talk) 14:52, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: Hello!  I took a lot of pictures from my home province in the Philippines.  Many of the plants I could not name or classify.  An example is here.  I could not identify. but might very well me Phalaenopsis.  There are more images in my user page.  --Ate Pinay  (talk•email) 15:54, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That is definitely a Phalaenopsis. But unless you know the pedigree of this particular plant, do not try to tag it with a species name or hybrid name. Just label it as an unknown variety of Phalaenopsis. --Michaelzheng 17:20, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Thank you! Pinay  (talk•email) 01:36, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: a species?

message: Thanks for this interesting article. I note "They bloom in their full glory for several weeks. If kept in the home, they usually last two to three months, which is considered quite a long time." Our white Phal has been in bloom, in the bathroom, since July 2006! === Vernon White (talk) 12:10, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Period of blooming

message: From the article: "Post-pollination changes in Phalaenopsis orchids - Phalaenopsis are not only outstanding in their beauty, but also unique in their photosynthetic mechanism. " 
This must be a mistake; it is not explained anyway - at least not very clearly. 82.92.245.109 (talk) 16:04, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've given a bit more information + reference.  JoJan (talk) 08:50, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  photosynthetic? 

message: The following paragraph seems terribly contradictory.  I have removed it from section "Intergeneric hybrids" and placed it here, if anyone wants to try to salvage the concept that true representatives of the nothogenus Phalphalaenopsis somehow do not exist:
:There is no true intergeneric hybrid between Phalaenopsis and the closely related Paraphalaenopsis. However, according to the RHS, the grex Phalphalaenopsis Doris Thornton, registered in 1977 as a cross between Paraphalaenopsis x thorntonii and Phalaenopsis Doris is just such a hybrid. Therefore, strictly speaking, the genetic barrier between these two closely related genera has not been crossed. But, since there are only very few true Phalaenopsis species in cultivation (most are hybrids), the possibility of a true intergeneric hybrid is not to be excluded.
I have also added Phalphalaenopsis to the list of nothogenera.  Jay L09 (talk) 05:19, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terribly contradictory 

message: Note in the Wikipedia article for Cultivar:
"The cultivar epithet is capitalised and enclosed by single quotes; it should not be italicized."
Many of the images in this article not only ignore this rule, but seem to have little regard for context.  Is Phalaenopsis cultivars a species?  Example "Pink Phalaenopsis (Moth) Orchids" doesn't italicize the genus name, feels the need to have "(Moth)" where it isn't needed, and mistakes the number of plants in the picture.
An otherwise credible article looks positively shoddy when the attached images appear to follow a schizophrenic author's stream of consciousness.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spontaneous Symmetry (talk • contribs) 15:34, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming and Cultivar Epithet Inconsistencies 

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thread_title: File:Phal hybrid1.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion

message: The article presents two views about the conditions required for flowering.  I've put the sentences these two views into the same paragraph, for neatness, but I think it wouldn't harm the article to just present the summary of the Blancard + Runkle paper -- something like:
"Phalaenopsis will produce the greatest number of flowers with an average daily temperature of between 15C and 18C.  Temperatures above 28C will inhibit flowering completely.  It was previously believed that a night-time temperature drop was necessary for flowering, but this is not the case".
AndrewBolt (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 09:39, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trigger conditions for flowering 

message: There is no section on how these plants are pollinated...
75.84.172.85 (talk) 23:51, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reproduction? 

message: In the opening paragraph is the phrase:
"Phalaenopsis is one of the most popular orchids in the trade"
What is "the trade" to which the contributor refers, and what has a "trade" to do with the summary definition of a species of orchid in an encyclopaedia?  If this web site were for "traders in botanical specimens" the context would make some sense, but this is an article about plants, not about trading.
Or are we to assume that because Wikipedia is USian in origin and style all the information it contains must be seen within the context of buying, selling, money, a capitalist outlook on life, etc?  Who was the person who so wisely and wittily said: "Americans [sic] know the price of everything and the value of nothing"?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.130.99.241 (talk) 05:17, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Botany? Or 'trade'? 

message: Is it just me or does the ecology section have absolutely nothing to do with the ecology of these plants? If anything, it is plant physiology and feels very detached from the rest of the text. I suggest the section either be completely removed or moved to some other section of the article.
Unless someone complains, I will remove the section.
MrKimm Master of ecology 2014-08-22
 I also thought that section was odd. Maybe it should just be renamed to phytochemistry instead of removing it. I added a bit to the pollination. That could be the ecology section. Conan Wolff (talk) 14:05, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ecology 

message: I suggest the images shown in the article should be more representative for the genus. In other words instead of including several images of complex hybrids, which are primarily composed of subgenus Phalaenopsis, the images could be chosen to represent the other subgenera (Proboscidioides, Aphyllae, Polychilos, Parishianae). Conan Wolff (talk) 20:27, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I also suggest that since this article is viewed more than 300 times per day, the principal image should not be changed without discussion here. Gderrin (talk) 00:40, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Choice of images in the articles

message: I came to this article to learn if my orchid is an annual or a perennial, but this information was not available. Could this be fixed, please? Thank you! 98.97.34.38 (talk) 19:01, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: All orchids are perennial plants. Gderrin (talk) 21:09, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Annual/perennial? 

message: How do you take care of it 2601:18D:8C7F:B600:9425:6B2:6F71:FF9F (talk) 13:26, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orchid