Recent content by FrankRC

I bought canhii from them in the United States.

Great observation and thank you for posting this! Unfortunately there are some who would argue with you until hell freezes over that every variation in a flower makes a totally new and distinct species, that natural variation doesn’t exist. Best,

What is kolopakingii variety giganteum? Is that a formally described variety of kolopakingii? Or an invented name to sell more plants?

Thank you Eric! I am in Orange County in the Hudson Valley. Any way to get you the plant that doesn't involve badges, tunnels and 5 hours?

In the United States we have a popular expression, the "Monday Morning Quarterback". For those of you outside the United States who don't follow American football, this expression describes a person who, on the Monday morning after Sundays football games, proffers his opinions as to what his...

Many years ago, in the 1990's, I was at Paph Guild in California. It was still run by Norris Powell at that time. Norris invited a geneticist from the University of California to come speak about albino Paphs. Which one of the UC's it was is long gone from my memory as is the name of the...

Many species of Paphs have blurred lines between species names. I don't like using the term "complex", to me it is a lazy way out of doing your homework and lumping many dubious names under one umbrella. However, all the forms/names of villosum, gratrixianum, barbigerum, lowii, can, and...

Now this is specific and very, very helpful. This is also not surprising. Nurseries in that part of the world are known to be deceptive and selling Pinocchio as the species would not be surprising. Many plants in cultivation labelled as primulinum are Pinocchio and they don't all originate...

Anyone know if I can get a plant judges Saturday? I won't be there Friday and I don't have a display, obviously. But I do have a plant in flower now that needs a look.

I will be there Saturday with my daughter

Xavier, I do not breed roth's. I have very little interest in joining a large crowd of international roth breeders, many of whom are reputable and are producing some of the best roths in the world. Even if I were inclined to line breed roths I would be starting 10 - 15 years behind these...

So let me understand the general ideas going through this thread. First, if a roth is better than what Xavier has, and there are many I’ve seen his photos and I am not impressed, it must be a hybrid and the breeder/owner a liar and a fraud. Second, Taiwanese roth’s made with Mt. Millais surely...

It does not. It only proves that the person who took this photo selected those plants from the cross that he wanted to photograph. There is nothing in this photo to prove your point. Frank

Because in the Phragmipedium world, the misrepresentations and fraud have been blatant and pervasive. There is one well known Phragmipedium breeder who has been unapologetically blatant and fraudulent in their labels and use of names and another who openly used to sell plants that they had been...

If the implication here is that other nurseries that line breed Paph. rothschildianum engage in the practice of routinely and purposefully mislabeling the parentage of their roths, you are dead wrong on this topic, again. Dave is not the only breeder of roth’s who accurately tags his plants. If...