Paph Gary Romagna

Really happy with this first flowering seedling. I think it has some potential. Flowers are a bit crowded but the plant is small and hopefully should present better on a larger plant. Love the horizontal petals in particular. The petals are more horizontal than any of my roths.


Paph Gary Romagna (St Swithin x rothschildianum)

Wonderful photograph, David!
Looks like a nice yellow rothschildianum... Not a bad start for a first flowering seedling!

very very nice.

Yup, love it!

Wow!

A beauty...congrat's on getting it to bloom.

That's super!

Wow -- if mine had looked like that, it would still be in my collection!

Excellent photo, also.

Like the overall look of this bloom including the shape and colouring. Cracking start.

Gary
UK

Really nice. roth stance with SS colouration. Where did it come from?

Beautiful!:clap:

Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

Ozpaph said:

Really nice. roth stance with SS colouration. Where did it come from?

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Yes, it does look very much like a St Swithin with the roth stance. It is what you hope for with these roth primaries crossed back to roth, but you hardly ever see. I got lucky.

I won this plant on eBay. The seller was that Victorian grower - cdhgh. The plant originally came from Castle Creek Nursery. I don't know the parents involved although he said there were a few other plants of the cross that had St Swithin 'Sunnybank' FCC/AOC as the parent. If this was the parent then that would increase the chance of obtaining a horizontal petal stance.

Thank-you. Its a very nice flower. 'Sunnybank' as a parent makes sense.

Ozpaph said:

Thank-you. Its a very nice flower. 'Sunnybank' as a parent makes sense.

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Yes, you can see similarities.

Not sure if this is Australian breeding or Taiwanese. I've noticed from flask lists that St Swithin 'Sunnybank' is used a bit in Taiwanese breeding. So they must have imported it at one time.

Many years ago, I understand.

Looking up my records I have a Gary Romagna from the same source and the same cross from Cape Oasis - will have to see if I can find the plants.

Excellent outcome David. Looks like a yellow roth with a philie pouch!

PS. Welcome back from your long trip/job!

SlipperKing said:

PS. Welcome back from your long trip/job!

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Thanks Rick. Returned from a two month holiday last Saturday. Yesterdays first day back at work was tough to get through.

With the double roths dose, the yellow pouch colouring is quite surprising, and attractive. Nice!