Looks like a good number of those are albino from the leaf bases.
-Ernie
I'm not a geneticist, but it does depend upon the genes involved in the albinism. It's quite possible to have two album species crossed and produce all normal offspring.But if both parents are album shouldn't all the seedlings be album?
David
Yes, if the albinism matches up on the same gene(s) and loci in both parents, they will all be albino. Pretty easy to imagine since del and viet are so closely related.
For the record, albino del is properly Paph. delenatii fma. albinum.
-Ernie
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Assuming that the flowers are just white, why albinum and not album? ....
Assuming that the flowers are just white, why albinum and not album? Doesn't the designation albinum allow green and/or yellow to be present and album is white and only white? If my previous statements are correct, albinum would be acceptable for a white flower, but wouldn't album be the better choice since it more accurately describes the flower?
Gary
PS - Thanks for the enjoyable presentation to the Madison Orchid Guild last month.
Assuming that the flowers are just white, why albinum and not album? Doesn't the designation albinum allow green and/or yellow to be present and album is white and only white? If my previous statements are correct, albinum would be acceptable for a white flower, but wouldn't album be the better choice since it more accurately describes the flower?
Gary
PS - Thanks for the enjoyable presentation to the Madison Orchid Guild last month.
That's how I remember these. I think Paul Phillips pointed that out some time ago in a Slippertalk thread.Paphiopedilum and album; Cattleya and alba... see the endings? They are important in Latin, Greek, and many other languages (except English ).
-Ernie
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