Roth
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Vietnamense album are still alive around the world, divisions from the original as well as blooming size seedlings.
However, we feel what I always said, to keep a species 'alive' in the collection, there is a need to have wild plants nonstop, which is abnormal. Paph. vietnamense is not available from the wild in quantities anymore ( the collectors do not want to collect for very cheap), so the quantity of seedlings on the market has dropped considerably. At a time, it was so common to see seedlings offered...
Vietnamense usually has a lifespan in culture of a couple of years, they bloom once, sometimes, but rarely twice, then they die. That's why I always said that people do not know how to grow most paph species.
As for the hybrid, there are delenatii album that are equally good, if not better even...
However, we feel what I always said, to keep a species 'alive' in the collection, there is a need to have wild plants nonstop, which is abnormal. Paph. vietnamense is not available from the wild in quantities anymore ( the collectors do not want to collect for very cheap), so the quantity of seedlings on the market has dropped considerably. At a time, it was so common to see seedlings offered...
Vietnamense usually has a lifespan in culture of a couple of years, they bloom once, sometimes, but rarely twice, then they die. That's why I always said that people do not know how to grow most paph species.
As for the hybrid, there are delenatii album that are equally good, if not better even...