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Is there anyone here that has not read my article formally dropping this name into the synonymy of schlimii? It was originally published in the Digest and was reprinted in Die Orchidee and a few other publications by request. It’s all in there, the photos, the methodology, the supporting studies...

The flower is beautiful, no doubt. Well grown too. That being said, just because it was bought as one name, doesn’t make it so. Plant tags are not taxonomic indicators. The formal description of fischeri claims that this species name has two distinguishing characteristics, one is an extra...

Tough to say for sure without exact provenance. Ecuagenera sold many things as “d’alessandroi” over the years, few true to the name. Many besseae also branch and this is not dispositive of whether the plants are besseae or the variety. Plants with flowers consistent with yours have been found in...

Gorgeous. Self that flower if you do that kind of thing. Everyone note some of the characteristics of this flower. The color (andreettae?), the general shape of the staminode (fischeri?), the center ridge (seen in those flowers without a staminode) and the shape of the slipper (just about...

That's beautiful. Please attach a photo of the flower here when you eventually see it? Many of these have been blooming out to be hybrids. Use the guide above to ID your flower. Large brown spots in the general shape of a right triangle on the face of the claw. It is unique to this species...

Why am I calling this thread "Phragmipedium caricinum - Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio"? After the Simon and Garfunkel song Mrs. Robinson, wherein that question was asked. While we can debate the meaning of those lyrics, it is a good place to start when talking about Phragmipedium caricinum...

You, and everyone else can, and many have, read the formal reduction of fischeri into the synonymy of schlimii in the Orchid Digest in 2020 and 2021. I have given my schlimii talk many times, the British Paphiopedilum Society is the most recent, and it has always been very well received and...

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The correct name for this plant is Phragmipedium schlimii.

Eric, your logic makes no sense. Either a plant is 100% legal from the source to the greenhouse bench or it is not. We can't pick and choose what we deem to be an acceptable purchase and what we don't. So many people have stopped posting here due to aggressive responses to photos and posts...

The presence of a lab has no bearing on the status of plants. Following this logic through to its conclusion, if a nursery has a lab and crosses two plants of rungsuriyanum, canhii, anitum, or any other plant that is questionable from the source location, those plants would then be OK, no...

That doesn’t mean anything Eric. Where do you think all their kovachii came from and thus all their kovachii hybrids? Ask Peru if they ever issued a permit for them to collect and ask them to produce a valid CITIES export permit from Peru. Better yet contact the folks at the Quito botanical...

Is this where the "I am holier than thou" crowd who wishes death and incarceration and humiliation on anyone with suspect plant chimes in and asks why so many people have no problem buying plants that are either illegally collected at some point regardless of valid import papers at the...

Very well said and I agree. That aside, I do encourage everyone to read up on that unsavory part of slipper orchid history. There is a lot to learn there.

I have a different take on the decline of commercial slipper nurseries in the United States. Like many of you, I have been growing orchids, mostly slippers and a few species I picked up from nurseries over the years, since the 1980's. I still have divisions I got from Ron C. at Taylor...

The culture article is in the Orchid Digest, year end special edition, 2020. :)

Thank you for posting these beautiful photos. However, it is not new that Phrag. besseae still exists in Peru. I found several populations in 2015 and 2017 not far from this location. I published photos in the 2020 year end Phragmipedium issue of the Orchid Digest, along with a discussion as to...

So you figured out what natural populations have been telling us, but we haven’t been paying attention. Pearcei, which this is, likes brighter light. Congratulations on a getting all those spikes at once! Pearcei is tricky to bloom.

caricinum grows on rocks below the high water line in rivers large and small. Culture is the same as pearcei.

Good afternoon all. Normally I would not bump an old thread. However, this thread needs some updated and accurate information. The Roth's in question all come from the Sunlight Orchid Nursery. They, like most of the Taiwanese slipper nurseries, have many clients around the world. I have had...