Recent content by Nickp

Yeah, I think probably a complex hybrid, but not one involving lowii. The dark petals make me think phillippinense isnin there somewhere. If it had a name, it wouldn’t be a bad plant, but I’d have preferred a properly labeled Paph Julius over some random unlabeled multifloral ☹️

This was supposed to be Paph Julius. Based on petal length and the white ovaries, I suppose that it has P. sanderianum in its background somewhere. Any guesses as to its other ancestry? The “Paph sukhakulii” that I got from the same source was also mislabeled.

If you are still searching, I found an nbs seedling today at Little Brook Orchids in Lancaster PA. Couldn’t believe it. Not sure if the have any more but might be worth a call.

Currently, my plan is to grow it into a specimen, but I’ll keep your suggestion in mind—sometimes paphs just fall apart into divisions, despite my best efforys 😁

Thanks, that makes sense. I was really scratching my head over “Pleces”

Here's my Lady Isobel, currently flowering. Too bad the two inflorescences are facing in different directions. The plant came from SVO, but it had a Krull-Smith tag. The cross is listed as P. stonei 'Krull-Smith' x P. rothschildianum 'Pleces' AM/AOS. Can't find anything about the roth clone...

Sam breeds good plants, for sure.

A couple more plants purchased from Orchid Inn in 2019 that flowered earlier this year. I was a bit surprised by the very pendulous petals on the Saint Swithin, as plants I have seen in the past had petal stance more intermediate between the two parents. The St. Swithin is rothschildianum...

This is rothschildianum 'Leo' SM/JOGA x anitum 'Ace' AM/AOS from Orchid Inn. First bloom. I like the dark petals on this clone. Pick your favorite name, depending on whether or not you think P. anitum is a separate species or variety of adductum. I'm going along with WCSP and RHS for now.

(Assuming attachment works) here are two Paph philippinense currently blooming in my collection. I got the tall one from the Orchid Trail last year. No parentage information, but it seems fairly typical of the long-petaled forms that are common in cultivation. The smaller is one of two dwarf...

Here it is. Just one blooming growth and one old growth. It doesn't seem to want to form a specimen--every year it produces a single new growth that flowers about the time that the old growth dies. https://i1279.photobucket.com/albums/y527/myrmecodia/IMG_7257_zpslcpzwnkc.jpg

This plant has bloomed four or five times before, but this is its first time with a two-flowered inflorescence. The inflorescence structure is odd--instead of the second flower arching above the first, the extension of the inflorescence is completely lax and dangles straight down...

It would be a big specimen, if I had grown it consistently across 24 years. But I didn’t. :( When I switched from under-lights/windowsill to greenhouse growing, it took me a while to get the hang of growing in much brighter light and different temperatures—Paphs in particular suffered. Then...

I bought this plant from JEM orchids in 1996, so it is one of my oldest surviving Paphs. I think P. Golddollar was a really inspired cross -- you get a flower that approximates P. armeniacum in size and color, but the plant is so much easier to grow and bloom. (click the link for pic without...

Before I had a greenhouse, my P. philippinense flowered best if I put them outside in summer. They sat beside Euphorbia and Pachypodium in conditions that would burn a cattleya to a crisp--full sun in North Carolina. Probably wouldn't be good for species and hybrids that like a little more...