Paph. Hilo Charlee

[physiognomy]

I stopped by the grocery store tonight to pick up some milk & was excited to find that they had a couple of Paph's in the floral department. Even with the ripped petal, I think this is a pretty cute little flower & couldn't resist taking it home with me. Nice color, too...

Paphiopedilum Hilo Charlee = Paph. Hilo Glory 'JF096 #1' x Paph. charlesworthii 'Thanksgiving'

I'll try to snap a better picture with natural light this week.

 

[Carkin]

Beautiful colors! It looks like amethyst!

 

[Erythrone]

Cute!

 

[NYEric]

I like the dorsal.

 

[Susie11]

I love it!

 

[SlipperKing]

I'm with Eric. Is the flower on the small size?

 

[SlipperFan]

Grape jelly!

 

[physiognomy]

Thanks for the comments everyone. It was nice to come home tonight to this bright colored flower.

... Is the flower on the small size?

Rick, the flower is approx. 10cm across the petals and 7cm vertically.

 

[Leo_5313]

Nice pick! I have to go to the grocery stores more often!

 

[eaborne]

Nice purple color!

 

[toddybear]

Wish our grocery stores sold paphs...all I see are Phals by the truck-load.

 

[Eric Muehlbauer]

Same here. Trader Joe's has loads of phals, odonts, Miltoniopsis, cyms (in winter), I even got a nice and very cheap Masdevallia from them. Only once did I ever see a paph....and it was a very mediocre small bloomed green Maudiae type. Ditto for Home Depot, except they only get Phals and Cyms.