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Roy

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This a pic of a cross the owner of a nursery gave me 10 plants of, all he had, as seedlings.
The results from every plant was what you see and from all reports from the USA nursery who made the cross, only one plant flowered properly. I think I have mentioned this before but couldn't find the pics. Its P.bellatulum x Orchilla 'Chilton'.
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Paph Orchilla 'Chilton' is noted for some dismal failures. That cross single handed has set back Paph breeding 150 years,
 
Dot, hopefully I'm a lot wiser now than when these were purchased or accepted. Then again I fell for the Brachy x Multiflorals. ( see Deformities 2 )
Actually, I saw that thread first for some reason -- partly why when I got to this thread I used "interesting"...
 

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