Paphiopedilum stonei wild in situ

[gonewild]

I asked a friend in Sarawak if he had a picture of what he considered a healthy natural growing wild Paph plant.
He sent a picture of Paph stonei that he took recently and said it is part of a new population he found.

Look at the picture and you can see what a normal wild Paph looks like.
It's not what I call dark green.
How do your plants look in comparison?

 

[NYEric]

Exactly the same!

 

[cnycharles]

..... I see nussing!

 

[AdamD]

Hmm some darker some lighter. Thanks so much for the pic!

 

[Rick]

Looks fine to me.

I have 2 that are bigger clumps.

 

[emydura]

..... I see nussing!

Me either.

 

[troy]

I wonder how much of that rock leeches off with the rain water over those roots?

 

[Trithor]

Lance, that is a cool habitat picture. Are there any other pictures in the series?

 

[paphioboy]

FYI, Michael Lo also has taken some photos of stonei in situ which I posted before in several threads on nutrition and also one on light. Some of which are much darker than this and flowering well.

 

[Lmpgs]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Secundino]

...and? The leaf colour is the response to all factors that act with the plant during a given time. Without these infos one cannot recreate - why should one like to do so? - or compare with our windowsill/GH/culture.

 

[polyantha]

 

[Ozpaph]

one light and the other dark green...................variability in plants and environment

 

[Camellkc]

My paph's leave color close to the second.

 

[Justin]

My paph's leave color close to the second.

my stonei are this color too.

 

[cnycharles]

Me either.

I clicked on the page and then clicked 'web
view' in tapatalk and the picture showed up there (won't display in tapatalk)

 

[Trithor]

I am constantly amazed that some are able to grow this species so easily. Claims of it being easy and fast (and in some cases, the fastest grower), yet under my culture it is slow and difficult. I have tried regular fertilizer, and a K-Lite approximate, but still I struggle. I am obviously missing a vital aspect of its requirements. This is why the in-situ pictures are of so much interest. Not because of leaf colour, but the plant environment, thank you all for the pictures!

 

[Paphman910]

My stonei that is huge is medium green and grows like a weed! Lots of lava rock at the bottom half of my pot and it is root bound!

Hard to tell if the is actually dark or light green from the photos.

 

[Justin]

it is very clone-dependent. It helps to have a lot of them!

 

[troy]

What kind of lava rock do you use?