| Fascination |
| Original Oil on Canvas, 30" x 48" Gallery Wrapped on 1 1/2" Depth Stretcher Bar |
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American Orchid Society - Director of Education Note:
Patricia’s inspiration for this work, Fascination, is a modern man-made hybrid called a Miltassia. Here the hybridizer’s had has
brought together two related, Brassia and Miltonia, but geographically separated orchid genera to produce the flower you see
here. Brassia species have their center of distribution in the Peruvian Andes radiating outward along western South America
through the Caribbean and into southern Florida while Miltonia species are confined to the eastern Atlantic forests of Brazil,
extreme northeastern Argentina and eastern Paraguay. For many years another group of cooler growing orchids now called
Miltoniopsis were included in Miltonia even though it was clear from the hybridizers that this latter group did not interbreed at all
well with Brassia. We now know from molecular genetic work that this latter group are not all all closely related to either genus.
Patricia’s inspiration for this work, Fascination, is a modern man-made hybrid called a Miltassia. Here the hybridizer’s had has
brought together two related, Brassia and Miltonia, but geographically separated orchid genera to produce the flower you see
here. Brassia species have their center of distribution in the Peruvian Andes radiating outward along western South America
through the Caribbean and into southern Florida while Miltonia species are confined to the eastern Atlantic forests of Brazil,
extreme northeastern Argentina and eastern Paraguay. For many years another group of cooler growing orchids now called
Miltoniopsis were included in Miltonia even though it was clear from the hybridizers that this latter group did not interbreed at all
well with Brassia. We now know from molecular genetic work that this latter group are not all all closely related to either genus.