Paphiopedilum papuanum

Here one of the rare species of the genus

Paphiopedilum papuanum















It would be interesting to see also pictures of other clones here. The variability of this species is near unknown.

Best greetings

Olaf

Hardly anyone has this plant Olaf. How long have you been growing it? Can you post a picture of the whole plant?

This is very cool:clap::clap:

Interesting species. Is the dorsal usually that small, compared to the pouch?

Olaf,
Is it related to appletonianum? hookerae? wenworthianum?

Olaf- this has probably been asked before..but is this the same plant as "zieckianum"? Certainly looks like it....I want it! Take care, Eric

Super nice Olaf. At the very least if the plant can take it, self it. We all need more of these.

Thanx for posting.

Great plant! I love the staminode on the bloom. Cool...

great pics again Olaf!!!! Is the flower completely open?? Jean

Very nice characteristics in this flower

Amazing colours on this flower!!!! Cool!!!

Dear Jean-Lux,
the flower is comletely open.
My friend will try the selfing, but in the past the artificial propagation of this species was always a problem.

Best greetings

Olaf

Never seen this one, very cool!

Great Pictures Olaf! Thanks for sharing. We used to have a plant that was labeled Paph. papuanum. It was a hard plant to grow, and I think we have unfortunately lost it :sob: When it bloomed I tried selfing it, but like you said, did not have any luck getting any seedlings to grow in the lab. Here are some pictures I took of it when it bloomed in 2002:





In my picture file I also have 2 pictures of a plant named Paph. zieckianum, which I believe is considered to be the same species as Paph. papuanum:




Robert



Robert

I heard this group, violascens, bogovellianum, etc. are notorious for staying alive. I had one violascens and it unfortunatley die after flowering and not to mention grow very slowly. Only about one leaf a year.

very very bloom

Interesting, unique, & I can like weird but not one that would go on my want list.

SlipperFan said:

Interesting species. Is the dorsal usually that small, compared to the pouch?

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Yes, to my understanding.

This is a bid different from the other two shown. This one came in as paph zieckianum. However, the plant looks exactly the same as the one shown by Robert, be it the size, the pattern and the color of the plant.

cool looking flower

Dear Robert and Truemadman,
many thanks for your pictures. The last shown plant seems to be a regional variety of Paph. papuanum but is not identical with the so described Paph. zieckianum. I get also pictures of this clone, but would need more informations about.

Here for your information the typeplant of zieckianum





Perhaps Paph. zieckianum is also a local variety of papuanum, but no plant is in culture.
But it would be interesting to see more of these plantgroup.

Best greetings

Olaf