paph. bellatulum

[tmoney]

for comparison and your viewing pleasure. finally opened up after like 6 months in low bud! slow and steady wins the race, I guess . grown in semi-hydro

 

[NYEric]

No foliage?

 

[tmoney]

hahah, do people actually care about the foliage?! just kidding well, the leaves are quite dark and I didn't feel like trying to blend shots to show it. if I metered for the foliage then the flower is super blown out and overexposed, so I chose the flower instead!

 

[Herbert Reisinger]

Reminds me of wenshanense....

 

[GuRu]

Reminds me of wenshanense....

Looking just at the flower you could think so .... but the staminode has the 3 teeth at the lower edge/tip which wenshanense doesn't have.

 

[tmoney]

ahh, the devil's always in the details i suppose! also these plants that Wichmann has (where we got it and what is shown on their site) has this frill to the petals which i don't see on other examples. also, these seem t express more yellow than others, especially in the pouch and staminode. its even more vibrant in person, as usual. its cool, i think, but really it prolly isn't for everyone. oh well, weve tried breeding it anyway!! hahahah

 

[Ricardo Boricua]

Wonderful flower!

 

[BrucherT]

hahah, do people actually care about the foliage?! just kidding well, the leaves are quite dark and I didn't feel like trying to blend shots to show it. if I metered for the foliage then the flower is super blown out and overexposed, so I chose the flower instead!

You can do both.

 

[tmoney]

ha! well, good photographers can do both! its enough effort for me to focus stack the flower (imperfectly, to boot), and my computer hates me already. in the future i want to do more exposure blending, but for now you will just have to imagine what the leaves look like!!!