polyantha
Well-Known Member
Hi guys!
Some of you probably remember this thread Rick published in 2010 with a very nice vinicolored sanderianum:
I remember beeing a little jealous and impressed by the color, as I have never seen something quite like that before. I started contacting people around the world (some of them are good friends of mine now) looking for other vini sanderianums.
There are several dark clones around:
Old pic of a nicely colored sandie from parkside: http://www.parksideorchids.com/images/Paphs/Paph%20sanderianum.JPG
Another one of zephyrus: http://www.zephyrusorchids.com/PAPHSPHRAGS/Dark%20sanderianum%20copy.jpg
OrchidWeb has a pic of a dark clone too: https://www.orchidweb.com/images/Product/large/psanderb.jpg
Then I found a pic of a Flickr member with the name "Marc" with nice color but short petals: https://www.flickr.com/photos/66087559@N05/11257939504
On the paph guild website I found another clone named 'specific'. I guess it is lighter colored than on the pic because the CHD at the bottom is lighter on the pic at the right side: https://sites.google.com/site/paphiopedilumguild/home
An interesting clone of a japanese grower: http://homepage3.nifty.com/ran3/paph.sanderianum_47100yashima.jpg
All the people I was in contact with told me that these color forms are extremely rare when very dark and probably come from a population living in a higher altitude. The standard answer
oke:
After me, all the plants above are not equally nice as the one Rick posted five years ago. I had to call people, mailing around and searching for five years to actually get my perfect sandie. I am proud to show you the holy grail of sandies (at least for me) I was in search of for such a long time. It will be part of my breeding program and hopefully we will get the darkest progenies from this plant in the future. Allow me to introduce P. sanderianum 'Black Mamba':
Cheers!
Yanik
Some of you probably remember this thread Rick published in 2010 with a very nice vinicolored sanderianum:
I remember beeing a little jealous and impressed by the color, as I have never seen something quite like that before. I started contacting people around the world (some of them are good friends of mine now) looking for other vini sanderianums.
There are several dark clones around:
Old pic of a nicely colored sandie from parkside: http://www.parksideorchids.com/images/Paphs/Paph%20sanderianum.JPG
Another one of zephyrus: http://www.zephyrusorchids.com/PAPHSPHRAGS/Dark%20sanderianum%20copy.jpg
OrchidWeb has a pic of a dark clone too: https://www.orchidweb.com/images/Product/large/psanderb.jpg
Then I found a pic of a Flickr member with the name "Marc" with nice color but short petals: https://www.flickr.com/photos/66087559@N05/11257939504
On the paph guild website I found another clone named 'specific'. I guess it is lighter colored than on the pic because the CHD at the bottom is lighter on the pic at the right side: https://sites.google.com/site/paphiopedilumguild/home
An interesting clone of a japanese grower: http://homepage3.nifty.com/ran3/paph.sanderianum_47100yashima.jpg
All the people I was in contact with told me that these color forms are extremely rare when very dark and probably come from a population living in a higher altitude. The standard answer
oke:After me, all the plants above are not equally nice as the one Rick posted five years ago. I had to call people, mailing around and searching for five years to actually get my perfect sandie. I am proud to show you the holy grail of sandies (at least for me) I was in search of for such a long time. It will be part of my breeding program and hopefully we will get the darkest progenies from this plant in the future. Allow me to introduce P. sanderianum 'Black Mamba':
Cheers!
Yanik
