Paph. papuanum / violascens

[UweM]

This plant was offered on the EOS in Dresden (Germany) as Paph. papuanum

In the following table you can compare the papuanum (line 1) with Paph. violascens (line 2+3) from an orchidfriend...

Whats your mind? Its looks like different - two species --> papuanum and violascens?

 

[valenzino]

In my opinion are all violascens.
Papuanum is compleately different.
I've seen plants of violascens from the same colony flowering with different shapes and particularly different staminode forms.

 

[Drorchid]

I agree, the ones that you are showing are all Paph. violascens. For some reason a lot of Paph. violascens got mislabed as Paph. papuanum.

This is what the true Paph. papuanum looks like (post by Olaf Gruss):
http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12308

Robert

 

[wonderlen3000]

What's with the german grower with their violascens/papuanum??? lol
They almost non existance in the north america, and most are very weak clones. Trust me I already killed twice!! =(

I wonder what is their secret??

 

[Shiva]

All the same. Still very nice flower.

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

I don't know, but I'm digging all of them!

 

[SlipperFan]

Interesting comparison. But they do look very similar, and very unlike Olaf's plant.

 

[NYEric]

Is this forum informative or what!?

 

[SlipperKing]

I too agree, very nice but all the same

 

[Eric Muehlbauer]

Looks exactly like the "papuanum" I got in the late 80's from Richard Topper. At that time, all papuanums turned out to be violascens.