today at the show I was looking to pick up a division of paph armeniacum from one of the vendors. while chatting, I saw large, flowering in bud plant resembling paph vietnamense. looked at top of tag, said 'paph vietnamense'.
I was just telling someone that I was thinking about looking for one; it was only $65, it was sold! I gave a check, left the plant behind the counter and kept looking around.
later, I came back, picked up the plant and talked about the nice form. I was told that yes it was nice, was one of first ho chi minh to come out of antec's flasking. (?) I took a closer look at the tag; pulled it out of the pot, read paph vietnamense x delenatii
oops, I had purchased a hybrid! after a minutes' hesitating and talking with another club member telling him what happened, I mentioned my mistake; I traded the very nice ho chi minh for the division of armeniacum and a smaller for-sure vietnamense seedling to be picked up at another show in a few weeks
*sigh*
I was just telling someone that I was thinking about looking for one; it was only $65, it was sold! I gave a check, left the plant behind the counter and kept looking around.
later, I came back, picked up the plant and talked about the nice form. I was told that yes it was nice, was one of first ho chi minh to come out of antec's flasking. (?) I took a closer look at the tag; pulled it out of the pot, read paph vietnamense x delenatii
oops, I had purchased a hybrid! after a minutes' hesitating and talking with another club member telling him what happened, I mentioned my mistake; I traded the very nice ho chi minh for the division of armeniacum and a smaller for-sure vietnamense seedling to be picked up at another show in a few weeks
*sigh*
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