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I'd go with Paph coccineum.

I remember seeing descriptions of Paph superbiens flowers lasting well over 4 months. They said they needed to dust off the flowers long before they faded.

The more the merrier...

I love this kind of cross. That's a very nice Mystic Isle, and a very-fairrieanum fairrienum. Could be fantastic. PM sent.

A fascinating and attractive species. I'll read the blog post in more detail later, but I didn't see hybridization in the past as a possible explanation for the mis-matched relationship between nuclear and chloroplast DNA. A Trichopilia x Psychopsis (or their ancestral lines) cross would put...

Lovely. It takes a great deal from the Aganisia cyanea grandparent-on-both-sides, but it appears the form and texture is improved.

Australians, always exaggerating about how hot it gets...

There's album, and then there's album. A true albino has no red/brown pigment anywhere in the plant. It can't produce it. But a taxonomist could apply forma album to just about anything and as long as the flower was mostly without red/brown pigment the name would probably stick. A lovely...

11cm is small for Paph kovachii, but not impossibly small, especially if the flower didn't quite develop normally. It will be interesting to see the next flower.

The most helpful measurement would be the full width across the flower, often called natural spread - from the tip of one petal to the tip of the other. Just hold a ruler or tape measure up to the flower. It can be hard to be exact, just do your best. That measurement will say a lot about...

Phal Taisuco Mickey - without the single quotes. There are several hundred Phal Taisuco Somethings, but none that is just Taisuco. No way to know if this one has a cultivar name. Most seem to look like this or tend toward (near) solid red-purples. Striking color contrast. Easy to see why...

Lucky Girl Orchids is pupsi_dog on eBay. Both the quality and variety of offerings will be greatly missed.

The flower seems somewhat mangled, perhaps not a good representation of how flowers will usually look. It does seem to have some characteristics from schlimii. Measurements could be helpful, and more pictures of plant and spike form, and seeing the next flower.

It is easy to jump to the natural hybrid conclusion, but if there is a significant population and it is isolated from the possible parent species, if it did arise as a natural hybrid it was many generations ago and it is far along the path to independent species. Without knowing if a population...

Love the colorful hives, like a row of tall "painted lady" Victorian houses. The video was well done. I know there were places setting up opportunities to watch chickens roost too.

I've seen a picture of Paph. lowii f. aureum 'Albino Beauty' CHM/AOS that also has a few small dark spots in that area. I don't know whether that one or yours really adheres to the description of f. aureum without reading the publication - if it specifically says there is no anthocyanin...

I don't know how it is handled in other countries, but in the US anything being used to treat a public water supply would be a matter of public record. Anyone can request to see records of the source of chemicals, certificates of analysis or results of independent testing. And all public or...

The American Robin is a type of Thrush (genus Turdus). This genus has world-wide distribution so similar birds occur in many places, though the coloring differs.

Nice tiger. The hormones in kelp products could have odd effects on buds very early in development, but so could drought, or heat, or cold, or many other things - any stress at just the right (wrong) delicate point in development. It would be at a point before you had any sign of a spike.

Roughly Texas to Maine in the US, including Dallas, Little Rock, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Buffalo. It might be interesting to experience on a boat in the middle of Lake Erie or Lake Ontario.