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cliokchi
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Hi guys,
here's the picture that Norris H Powell from the Orchid House took when it flowered for the first time after he brought it back from The Netherlands
the name 'Jack' is the first name of the Dutch Orchid grower mr. Jac Falstar
from Naaldwijk near Rotterdam.
Norris was in the Netherlands to join the European orchid congress in Amsterdam at that time.
Norris asked me to join him help him find a few orchid nurseries , I'm dutch but spoke fluently english so we left for Naaldwijk
i was the official dedicated translator/tourguide on this trip,
upon arriving in the Jac Falstar nursery Norris could not believe his eyes when he saw the tenthousands and ten thousands of paph species ,
callosum 3 different types, Paph. gratixianum laos uncountable in quantities.
Paph. concolor, sukhahulii, niveum and Paph . faireanum ,Norris first started to select the faireanums he choose about 50 diff faireanum
all plants were jungle collect [Holland did not join CITES till 1989]
then we walked over to the callosums and there was standing out like a sore thumb Paph. callosum black
Norris asked how much for this plant and if Jac Falstar was willing to part with it ,
he answered you like it you keep it for free , Falstar said i don't like it's color to Dark ! , it's then that Norris gave the plant it's varietal name
Paph. callosum 'jac'
nobody realized at that moment it would be one of the main building blocks of a whole new type of Paph. hybrids the Vinicolors,
in the 90's becoming the new craze and rang the bell for the demise of Complex Paph. hybrids
For Dot as you can see the original picture already shows it's habit of making crooked S shaped flower spikes.
another long history lesson,
I hope I don't bore the forum which such detailed info ,
i hope it's useful for somebody
cliokchi
here's the picture that Norris H Powell from the Orchid House took when it flowered for the first time after he brought it back from The Netherlands
the name 'Jack' is the first name of the Dutch Orchid grower mr. Jac Falstar
from Naaldwijk near Rotterdam.
Norris was in the Netherlands to join the European orchid congress in Amsterdam at that time.
Norris asked me to join him help him find a few orchid nurseries , I'm dutch but spoke fluently english so we left for Naaldwijk
i was the official dedicated translator/tourguide on this trip,
upon arriving in the Jac Falstar nursery Norris could not believe his eyes when he saw the tenthousands and ten thousands of paph species ,
callosum 3 different types, Paph. gratixianum laos uncountable in quantities.
Paph. concolor, sukhahulii, niveum and Paph . faireanum ,Norris first started to select the faireanums he choose about 50 diff faireanum
all plants were jungle collect [Holland did not join CITES till 1989]
then we walked over to the callosums and there was standing out like a sore thumb Paph. callosum black
Norris asked how much for this plant and if Jac Falstar was willing to part with it ,
he answered you like it you keep it for free , Falstar said i don't like it's color to Dark ! , it's then that Norris gave the plant it's varietal name
Paph. callosum 'jac'
nobody realized at that moment it would be one of the main building blocks of a whole new type of Paph. hybrids the Vinicolors,
in the 90's becoming the new craze and rang the bell for the demise of Complex Paph. hybrids
For Dot as you can see the original picture already shows it's habit of making crooked S shaped flower spikes.
another long history lesson,
I hope I don't bore the forum which such detailed info ,
i hope it's useful for somebody
cliokchi