John Charnley 'Hipster' 4n

[MrCym]

The man who kept me mobile, the wonderful MD who invented the artificial hip! A fittingly fine orchid named in his memory.

[Brian-g]

I am taking quite a liking for this orchid. Lovely matching colour combination and a touch of quality about this flower

[MrCym]

Brian, I'm not sure where to go with this one... Our standards are so well-developed already. May just clone it for a specialty market.

[Brian-g]

In my eye well worth cloning
Brian

[jjurlina]

Is this the 'reddest' colur from the cross?

[MrCym]

No.

[jjurlina]

So your original cross was with 2N parents?

[MrCym]

Not at all! Eternal Flame was 4n and better color than this one and the other parent, Kirby Lesh was also tetraploid and more of a pink but large and well-shaped.

[jjurlina]

The innocent apologise.

[jjurlina]

Left field question on ploidy, is the ploidy determined from plant/flower characteristics or from nuclear DNA testing?