Paph gratrixianum

[Marc]

This is the gratrixianum that I used for the ST breeding project. Forum user Mathias send me pollen of his clone. The thread can be found here:

http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24048

Seed has been harvested last weekend and brought away for sowing.

Here are the pictures of the single flower it produced this year.

 

[eggshells]

Beautiful.

 

[GuRu]

Lovely gratrix - congrats !

 

[nikv]

I love it!

 

[The Orchid Boy]

Love that "glowing" staminode.

 

[SlipperFan]

Stunning flower -- very fine photo. I would like to find a gratrix like this one.

 

[abax]

Quite unlike my gratrix. and much nicer. Wanna trade?

 

[JeanLux]

Very nice bloom, and great pics !!!! Jean

 

[papheteer]

Nice one!! Is it compact? I want one too!

 

[Marc]

Nice one!! Is it compact? I want one too!

This is not a really compact form, I was really impressed by the compact clone that slipperking posted a few days ago.

The leaves of this plant grow aprox. 30cm long and they grow up and have a lancet shape. The plant can be seen in the picture below on the left.

 

[Secundino]

That's a nice gratrix! I wonder if the villosum var gratrixianum o&m offer would be worth a try (they have messed up with the pics, I'm afraid) Like yours a lot, but wouldn't like to get a ordinary villosum... Its tremendous if you cannot really see what you buy. Hope you get good seedlings out of the two pods!

 

[SlipperKing]

Nice solid flower!

 

[Brabantia]

Very nice, I like it!

 

[Brabantia]

That's a nice gratrix! I wonder if the villosum var gratrixianum o&m offer would be worth a try (they have messed up with the pics, I'm afraid) Like yours a lot, but wouldn't like to get a ordinary villosum... Its tremendous if you cannot really see what you buy. Hope you get good seedlings out of the two pods!

Here is what O&M sales me for paph. villosum var. boxalii so distrust ! click Here

 

[Secundino]

Brabantia, thats just the type of plant I want! I'm no taxonomist, but I don't think it is var. boxalii, and I belive they have them mixed up in the greenhouses. (Or at least in the catalogue...) Yes, I always distrust when there are flaws in the catalogues... !