Special vietnamense

[yijiawang]

bloom in 5 days ago, special mottled petal and lip

 

[Bolero]

That's a huge colour break! Just teasing.

That colouring is indeed special, thanks for sharing.

 

[valenzino]

Interesting Yijia,the colour at margin of petals is strange and remind me of a virus...but not shure.
But the very interesting thing are dots!Those never seen.
The lip colour is not so unusual,seen already some with 3 different distinct shades of pink/violet.
Thanks for share
Alex

 

[Pete]

ya that is certainly not a special taxa. its just a very poor one. i doubt that its virused as many many many paphs are not virused, but i bloomed a few that had horrible color break like that and wierd texture..

 

[fibre]

I like such color breaks
Paph. vietnamense var. aquinii

 

[goldenrose]

For right now it's a blooming vietnamense! :clap:
It could be quite different the next blooming!

 

[smartie2000]

interesting! this one has lots of mottling, which is nicer than too little of it. There are some vietnamense with random colour breaks but it is not very good

 

[KyushuCalanthe]

Sorry that I have to agree with the above posts, although novel, not very lovely.

 

[SlipperFan]

Weird markings. If that continues, it could be a whole new line of breeding. :evil:

 

[emydura]

Personally I really like the colour breaks in this. Variegated flowers. I'd love to see breeding down this line. Just needs a bit better shape.

David

 

[SlipperKing]

Defenitely an odd ending for an otherwise nice flower. I'm not crazy about the color pattern.

 

[goldenrose]

.... Just needs a bit better shape. David

...... I'm not crazy about the color pattern.

It's been obvious what side of the fence members are. I was trying to look for positive things about this plant, I thought the shape was pretty decent for a vietnamense. Yes the shape of the petals in not quite symmetrical but how many are perfect? I'm sure we've all seen pics of awarded plants, that were not & we are judging from one angle only in the pic. Is this a 1st time blooming? I find that color pattern distracting, but that's my opinion. If I like a plant for whatever reasons, & allow it to stay in my collection, it's special to me! So yijiawang enjoy the blooms while they are there!