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Bodacious Smokey Jazz is one of my favorite Salvias. Have fun with the Paphs!

Here you go. The spotting is different on each flower. You have to look very closely as the spots are tiny. The second photo has one slightly larger spot near the base of the dorsal.

There are a couple of very small colored spots near the column.

This was from Sam originally. This year it has 5 blooming spikes and another low spike which will hopefully catch up soon.

Jackii, fowlei, charlesworthii and godefroyae

I don’t see P. helenae here at all. It looks like a P. barbigerum hybrid, maybe barbigerum x insigne

Yes I agree, dogs and orchids go well together. Here we have Kiko, Paph. Rosy Egret and PCV. Key Lime Stars.

Here is another plant from the same cross that just opened this week. A slightly smaller flower and more horizontally held petals. There is a small color break in one petal. I think this could disappear in future blooming.

I love this group of paphiopedilums, but separating them out is a daunting task. The leaves of Sam’s amabile are distinctive from most other appletonianum types that I have seen. Orchids Ltd. called this type true amabile. I do not know how they arrived at this conclusion.

This is the P. amabile that I got from Sam. It doesn’t look anything like this one.

This one is from Sam. Tall strong stem, dark coloring and overall chunky appearance.

This is a first bloom seedling from Hillsview Gardens. The flower stem is extremely tall, but I guess that is to be expected.

I bought this some years ago as gratrixianum, but the plant is much smaller than my other gratrixianum. The terracotta pot is 3.5” across. Would this more correctly be called P. christensonianum?

I just received a few plants from him at the end of October. Also, his website is still up. Is he just not shipping plants to the EU anymore?

This cross is P. wolterianum x venustum. Hausermann’s had an amazing specimen in their collection 25+ years ago. I put my name on the list for a division, but I had no luck. Later, I was told that one of their two plants had been stolen! Then last year, I was going through their Paphs and I...