Leo Schordje
wilted blossom
I picked this plant up as a nbs seedling from a vendor in California. It was labelled Paph insigne at the time, the comment was that it was not an ordinary insigne, that something was different about it. I believe these were distributed to a quite a number of people, so some of you may have seedlings from the same batch.
Well it bloomed, and I feel pretty comfortable calling this plant Paph exul. I have bloomed several exul over the years, and in every floral characteristic it seems to be Paph exul, but it is the most robust, tallest vegetatively of any exul I have ever owned. Plant size is more like insigne, but otherwise it looks like exul. My previous experience with exul is that it is a pretty compact species. However, it is seldom talked about as being 'small' in the literature, so I suspect that my previous exul were simply immature plants, grown in less than optimal conditions. I grow intermediate in summer to cool in winter. P. exul is reported to prefer warm temps most of the year, so I may simply not be getting full size out of my other plants.
So take a look, let me know if you think I'm right or wrong. It is in a 4 inch pot, so total height to dorsal tip is about 18 inches.
Well it bloomed, and I feel pretty comfortable calling this plant Paph exul. I have bloomed several exul over the years, and in every floral characteristic it seems to be Paph exul, but it is the most robust, tallest vegetatively of any exul I have ever owned. Plant size is more like insigne, but otherwise it looks like exul. My previous experience with exul is that it is a pretty compact species. However, it is seldom talked about as being 'small' in the literature, so I suspect that my previous exul were simply immature plants, grown in less than optimal conditions. I grow intermediate in summer to cool in winter. P. exul is reported to prefer warm temps most of the year, so I may simply not be getting full size out of my other plants.
So take a look, let me know if you think I'm right or wrong. It is in a 4 inch pot, so total height to dorsal tip is about 18 inches.