Paph sukhakulii 'Granite Creek'

[rbedard]

I acquired this from Val Tonkin when she was closing down their nursery.

 

[Gilda]

I like it !!

 

[Justin]

great form.

 

[tomkalina]

Classic!

 

[Wendy]

Oh boy that's nice! Well done! :clap::clap:

 

[Migrant13]

Wow, beautiful form and color.

 

[emydura]

Beautiful in all respects.

 

[SlipperKing]

So with that said, how old would say this plant is?

 

[rbedard]

So with that said, how old would say this plant is?

When I bought it, it was in pretty rough shape; but it had a handful of labels in the pot. Was obviously something good. Forget exactly when everybody closed down at the Livermore location, but plant predated that. I used to have pieces of both parents of this plant in the mid 1980's, so it could be that old or older. I just don't know for sure.

 

[rbedard]

Parents are 'Jack' AM/AOS X 'Althea' AM/AOS. Jack had great color and Althea had great form.

 

[abax]

Love the petal stance on this one.

 

[rbedard]

Most of the Tonkin's sukhakulii selections had nice horizontal petals. I think Val had the most horizontal.

Thanks for the nice feedback folks.

 

[SlipperFan]

You really have a beauty -- I'd love having one like it. The color!

 

[SlipperKing]

Big improvement over the Val parent.

 

[Hamlet]

That's a very beautiful sukhakulii. Awesome petals on this one. I love this species.

 

[Ozpaph]

great petal stance

 

[Justin]

really cool. love this species. someday i want to find a top-shelf Macabre., but for now i just pretend that my sukhakuli flower is bigger

 

[Kawarthapine]

Beautiful form.

Dorsal and lateral sepals look great.

I've never seen such a white pouch.

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Trithor]

Interesting clone. You don't often see many around with so much white in the pouch anymore. I guess that was bred and selected out in the early days. (A pity in a way, I think the pouch is very striking)

 

[Kawarthapine]

What a great plant.

A true classic. Any thoughts about selfing?