Paph. Booth's Saint-Adductum

'Wacousta' HCC/AOS (St. Swithin ‘Black Rook’ x adductum “Black Top’) This year's bloom only had three flowers, the same as when it was awarded.

That's very nice. The dorsal shows the adductum vs anitum.

Thats stout, I would imagine thats darker than it looks in the picture, plant looks very healthy

A good one Love the color and the shape

Love that dorsal!!

A stunning display.

Gary
UK

Very healthy plant and nice form and color. I wonder why the count is not improving. I have the same grex but it decided not to flower this tear.

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very nice...one of my favorites

I like it!!!
I have one made with anitum. Looking forward to its flowers one day.

Absolutely stunning Dot. Well worth the award. Love the colour in particular.

Happypaphy7 said:

I like it!!!
I have one made with anitum. Looking forward to its flowers one day.

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This one is made with anitum as well.

David, could this be with the 'real' adductum - its quite light in colour?

If I were a betting man, I would bet anitum rather then adductum. Given the age of the plant, I would also bet this cross was made in the age of the hidden anitums explaining the clonal name of the "adductum"

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Sorry Dot, I forgot to mention what a wonderful plant you have.

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SlipperKing said:

If I were a betting man, I would bet anitum rather then adductum. Given the age of the plant, I would also bet this cross was made in the age of the hidden anitums explaining the clonal name of the "adductum"

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And black top as a clonal name as a hint.

This one is very nice!!!

Wow it's a stunner I really like this you have some stunning plants.]

what are the dimensions?

my st switin x anitum is much darker and looks mostly like an anitum..seems like there would be a size difference too..with adductum imparting larger flowers

It really is a beautiful flower. I think I have one from the same cross (SVO?), but it has not bloomed yet. I hope it turns out half as nice as yours. Mike

SlipperKing said:

Sorry Dot, I forgot to mention what a wonderful plant you have.

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Thanks, Rick. I agree about the clonal name.

orchid527 said:

It really is a beautiful flower. I think I have one from the same cross (SVO?), but it has not bloomed yet. I hope it turns out half as nice as yours. Mike

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Yes, it is from Fred Clarke.

Ozpaph said:

David, could this be with the 'real' adductum - its quite light in colour?

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It is still pretty dark to me. I think it would be a lot lighter if var adductum was used. While the dorsal isn't as dark as it could be it still has that anitum look.

My first impression looking at this flower dorsal was adductum.
Even if anitum was used, resulting progenies wouldn't all uniformly dark anyway.
You have to consider the influence from other species involved and the genetic shuffling.

I thought about getting one from SVO but didn't.
I think Fred was selling large seedling or bloom size if I remember correctly. This would have cut waiting time significantly on my part. Mine is still about 10 inch leaf span, and very slow.