Golden Diamond

[rbedard]

(armeniacum x fairrieanum)

 

[Gilda]

Beautiful !!

 

[mrhappyrotter]

That's not at all the type of outcome I was thinking those two species would produce. I assumed it would be something closer to a yellow form of Jade Dragon.

 

[Ozpaph]

like a Gold Dollar. Dont see any fairie in it.

 

[SlipperFan]

Can it be mislabeled?

 

[Happypaphy7]

I'm pretty sure that is not Golden Diamond.
It's more like armeniacum x sequential paph.

 

[NYEric]

yep.

 

[rbedard]

Well that's embarrassing. But that's partly why I am here. This collection does have some labelling issues. Think I have a photo of one that probably is Golden Diamond; shows the fairrieanum. I will post it if I can find it.

Seriously, thanks for the correction. I have a LOT of this plant. LOL

 

[rbedard]

This look more like what you would expect for a Golden Diamond?

 

[labskaus]

Yes, that's much closer to my expectations. Very nice, too.

 

[Ozpaph]

Yes. The Gold Dollar looks nicer to me; less ruffles.

 

[SlipperKing]

Thanks for the postings

 

[rbedard]

So, do we have any sort of consensus that the original photo is Gold Dollar? Looked at some photos and flower and staminode look good for Gold Dollar.

Also would explain bad tag. Collection was getting stolen; owner started obfuscating identities of nice plants so they wouldn't get stolen. Flowered a sanderianum that was labeled Lord Derby.

 

[SlipperFan]

Interesting. I know a vendor who does that with rare plants.

 

[rbedard]

Works great until your memory goes ... that happened in this case. A real shame.