Paph leucochilum ('Dark Lord' x 'Locomotive' HCC/AOS)
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littlefrog
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Nice!
That's a very nice outcome. I think I have a seedling from this cross. Thanks for sharing. It gives me something to expect.... or potentially expect.
Looks big. 3 years from flask seems an achievement
Justin
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Nice! I have a different cross from around the same time. Mine are growing quite well but not as fast.
Well done to bloom leucochilum within 3 years from flask!
That one dot on the right side of pouch with have some people riled up lol.
That one dot on the right side of pouch with have some people riled up lol.
It's still a teenager with a little acne on the chin!
Good job.... and verty nice flower! 
Let's wait to get too riled up, untill we have encountered it the 2nd or 3rd time around!
Acne? Nay, it's just a li'll beauty spot, that adds to its present charm!It's still a teenager with a little acne on the chin!
Lovely flower and 3 years from flask is great. 
Leslie, nobody riles up there are only different views what deserves the name P. leucochilum ..... and b.t.w..... I'm keen to correct you because I count 3 spots at the side and one at the bottom of the pouch.
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Nice big plant already! Congrats!
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and b.t.w..... I'm keen to correct you because I count 3 spots at the side and one at the bottom of the pouch.
I noticed the same amount of spots.
As y'all know, I'm 100% with Rudolf on this matter! And I can't for my death fathom what morphological features separates leucochilum from the typical form of godefroyar. I have heard numerous proposals in respect to this. e.g. differences in leavage, differences in the rootsysteme. I've found exactly these proposed, differential features in plants, that clearly were typical godefroyaes, so.....Lovely flower and 3 years from flask is great.
Leslie, nobody riles up there are only different views what deserves the name P. leucochilum ..... and b.t.w..... I'm keen to correct you because I count 3 spots at the side and one at the bottom of the pouch.
Yes, there is the uncoloured outer lip of the pouch in leucochilum, but that's not a morphological feature, I.e. this does in my book barely account for leucochilum to be considered a variety of godefroyae, and far from a species in its own right.
The only logical solution to the whole leucochilum kerfuffle is in my point of view to subsume both under godefroyae, and consider the leucochilum plants (I.e. flowers with an all white, outer pouch) as a colourform of godefroyae. This implies operating with the typical form, P. godefroyae, and the colourform, P. godefroyae fma. leucochilum
Lovely flower, by the way!
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eds
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Completely agree. Somebody should publish describing it as such quickly to end all this nonsense!
(I know it is not a 'quick' thing to publish such a paper though!)
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