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The correct name for this plant is Phragmipedium schlimii.

Eric, your logic makes no sense. Either a plant is 100% legal from the source to the greenhouse bench or it is not. We can't pick and choose what we deem to be an acceptable purchase and what we don't. So many people have stopped posting here due to aggressive responses to photos and posts...

The presence of a lab has no bearing on the status of plants. Following this logic through to its conclusion, if a nursery has a lab and crosses two plants of rungsuriyanum, canhii, anitum, or any other plant that is questionable from the source location, those plants would then be OK, no...

That doesn’t mean anything Eric. Where do you think all their kovachii came from and thus all their kovachii hybrids? Ask Peru if they ever issued a permit for them to collect and ask them to produce a valid CITIES export permit from Peru. Better yet contact the folks at the Quito botanical...

Is this where the "I am holier than thou" crowd who wishes death and incarceration and humiliation on anyone with suspect plant chimes in and asks why so many people have no problem buying plants that are either illegally collected at some point regardless of valid import papers at the...

Very well said and I agree. That aside, I do encourage everyone to read up on that unsavory part of slipper orchid history. There is a lot to learn there.

I have a different take on the decline of commercial slipper nurseries in the United States. Like many of you, I have been growing orchids, mostly slippers and a few species I picked up from nurseries over the years, since the 1980's. I still have divisions I got from Ron C. at Taylor...

The culture article is in the Orchid Digest, year end special edition, 2020. :)

Thank you for posting these beautiful photos. However, it is not new that Phrag. besseae still exists in Peru. I found several populations in 2015 and 2017 not far from this location. I published photos in the 2020 year end Phragmipedium issue of the Orchid Digest, along with a discussion as to...

So you figured out what natural populations have been telling us, but we haven’t been paying attention. Pearcei, which this is, likes brighter light. Congratulations on a getting all those spikes at once! Pearcei is tricky to bloom.

caricinum grows on rocks below the high water line in rivers large and small. Culture is the same as pearcei.

Good afternoon all. Normally I would not bump an old thread. However, this thread needs some updated and accurate information. The Roth's in question all come from the Sunlight Orchid Nursery. They, like most of the Taiwanese slipper nurseries, have many clients around the world. I have had...

Like I said, if it’s not broken don’t fix it. Too many growers struggle with this species with a lot of cultural misconceptions being passed about regarding this species. What works for one grower and one plant doesn’t always work for everyone and every plant. Pay attention to the natural...

Good morning all in my time zone and greetings to those not. Kovachii has a few cultural requirements that we can glean from a study of natural populations that run contrary to some of what I am reading here and contrary to some of the advice being passed around that, in my opinion, is causing...

I won’t!

I measured 29cm and 7cm with 5 flowers on this guy. What do you think?

As I said, it is true primulinum and I trust the source of my information. The plants are the real thing, and recently encountered.

I have information, that I trust, that true primulinum has been found and collected recently. Let’s agree to disagree.

Good point Dave. Unfortunately not all commercial breeders think like you do, and not enough hobbyists are asking the right questions. I know a few unscrupulous breeders in the Phrag. world that will cross anything back onto species and throw a new name on it to make a buck. Always it seems sold...

Real Paph primulinum has been collected in the last few years.