paphiopedilum lowii miniature

[AquaGem]

From the looks of the plant. it is probably a collected plant.... wait a few more flowering to see if it will be mini still...

 

[Rick]

richardianum ?

This isn't very much like richardianum (except for the small size). Richardianum flowers are generally darker, and have more than 1 flower per spike.

 

[Eric Muehlbauer]

What about lynniae?

 

[quietaustralian]

I bought a couple of (at the time) unidentified Paph clumps a few years ago. On flowering I discovered they were dianthums.

The first to flower had one flower per spike but subsequent flowering have produced two flowers per spike. The reason I didn't recognise the plants as dianthum was because the leaves grow bolt upright and are only 10cm long. Initially I thought the plants were stunted due to poor conditions but all subsequent growths are the same length and angle.

So I guess the plant being discussed in this thread could be a "pygmy" but I'd wait to see how the plant develops.


Mick

 

[polyantha]

Very interesting. I have seen the same thing with a Phragmipedium longifolium one year ago. Normally a massive plant but in that case not bigger than this lowii.

 

[quietaustralian]

I bought a couple of (at the time) unidentified Paph clumps a few years ago. On flowering I discovered they were dianthums.

The first to flower had one flower per spike but subsequent flowering have produced two flowers per spike. The reason I didn't recognise the plants as dianthum was because the leaves grow bolt upright and are only 10cm long. Initially I thought the plants were stunted due to poor conditions but all subsequent growths are the same length and angle.

So I guess the plant being discussed in this thread could be a "pygmy" but I'd wait to see how the plant develops.

I asked my wife to take some pics of the mini dianthums. The leaves on the other clone grow vertical.

For reference the pots these divisions are growing in are 70mm deep. The front division is a previously bloomed growth and new growth.

 

[Hakone]

Up date

 

[nikv]

Wow! That is truly spectacular! :clap:

 

[John M]

VERY different! Will your friend pollinate this flower and make flasks available? That would be very wise.

 

[John M]

Hey? Doesn't Orchids Limited have a lowii like this one? I seem to remember Rob telling us something about a very different lowii. Hmmm? Must search for the thread.

Edit: Yup....found it!
http://http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12580&highlight=lowii

 

[Hakone]

I will ask him

 

[SlipperKing]

Freak'in cool Hakone!

 

[Rick]

Hey? Doesn't Orchids Limited have a lowii like this one? I seem to remember Rob telling us something about a very different lowii. Hmmm? Must search for the thread.

Edit: Yup....found it!
http://http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12580&highlight=lowii

But even this one has multiple flowers per spike.

But I must admit that Hakone's bloom has matured into something very similar to the OL flower.

 

[Denverpaphman]

Beautiful, I wish I had this plant haha

 

[Trithor]

What has happened to this plant? I am glad that it has been resurrected, wow it was spectacular, (and hope that it still is?)