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Hi again I thought I would share these photo's for interest sake. I originally purchased the plant unflowered because of the striking spotting under the leaves. When it spiked, this spotting was even carried through to the flower bract. When the flower opened, I would best describe the flower...

Hi I have a very nice 1st flowering vini that has been in flower for over 3 weeks. I love the colour, but the tips of both petals are pinched. Each petal has created a tight forward roll from the top and bottom edge to create this pinched appearance. This picture was taken 2 weeks ago but the...

When I took the flower off its natural spread was just over 13cm, and vertically it was about 8cm. I had hoped that if the dorsal had flattened it would have had a better vertical spread. The leaf-span of the plant is currently just shy of 20cm. The spike was on the short side, I'm guessing...

Hi All A first flowering HS Wild Cat. I'm very pleased with this one - especially the light coloured lip. I did not wait for it to flatten out completely, so as to not stress the newly acquired plant. Therefore, it was quite hooded as per the profile pic (2nd pic). However, when I removed...

Lowii dominating the stonei input on this one... JL

All of them are eye-catching, but my vote would be for "Red" (2nd picture). I see that there is already a pod on "Pinky"... what have you crossed onto this plant? JL

That dorsal is a perfect foil for the wide petals... lovely plant! JL

Howzit fellow Saffa Your mix may be a little dry for phrags. Your mix is sounds by and large similar to my standard paph mix - I use bark, pumice and polystyrene beads - but it was to dry for my phrags in durbs. I added some coconut coir to retain moisture and they seem to be enjoying this...

Envious by how good that plant looks 😲

It's interesting to compare this one to the flower on the cover of the AOS bulletin (Oct 21). That shape of that one is more dominated by fairrieanum, my one is more like rungsuryanum and has a lot of recurving of the petals and dorsal sepal. I however note that I took the picture when it was...

Hi All So exited by this plant flowering in my shade house. I cannot take all the credit as the plants were in spike when received. I have only left this spike to flower as their 6000 mile trip to South Africa suffered some delays. A change in hemisphere is enough stress on the plants ;-)...

Thanks for the info GuRu - I understand that they were imported from Schwerter Orchideenzucht. JL

Complements of the season to all. 🎄 I have a lovely first-flowering curtisii in flower, the pouch looks like a deep rich plum velvet (which I cannot seem to capture on my phone) and the spotting is well distributed on the petals. A question to our German members on this forum - is gruene fahne...

Eye-catching...

Tnyr5 - Well done on the Crytopus! I have only ever grown dissectus and elatus, but I absolute love this genus and it's crab-claw like petals. Pls post a pic of the flower when it spikes. JL

An interesting flower with clear colours judging by the pictures. First time I have seen pictures of the flower in cultivation - it would be well worth selfing. JL

I really battle to grow the Brachy species, niveum and thaianum have a short (really short) pit stop in the shade-house before moving onto the great compost heap in the sky. Any sign of a rain cloud, is just a prelude to their death march - they seem to really hate rain. I only have success with...

A very striking colour... JL

Yip - sound advice DirGo... I nearly lost all my paphs through a school-boy error of not quarantining a plant that I suspect introduced a severe fungal infection in my greenhouse last summer. Its taken a year to get my the few remaining plants right and only now as we enter summer again do I...

The dark colouration makes for a very striking dorsal sepal on the fairrieanum 😲