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Really love this little gem... flowers every 7-8 months like clockwork since I got it in 2019

Another albino family member I like to introduce: Paph Bobby Orr fma album Bobby Orr = stonei x Mount Toro {= stonei x philippinense} As a "die hard albino species lover" I realize I will have to wait many years before my "100% stonei album" seedling will ever flower, so you can...

Another albino family member that is blooming: officially Paph godefroyae var leucochilum fma album Bloomed first time ever in March this year, now did a second blooming in December Just for fun... a little mind game: if a "leucochilum" is a godefroyae with a spotless lip, isn't a "leucochilum...

Another albino family member that bloomed a few months ago. Hope you like it. DIanthum with some "delusions of grandeur" thinking it could be a TRIanthum if it made three flowers :) Sadly the first flower already started to fade when the last one opened.

In my "new member Introduction" BrucherT asked me about my druryi's, so here we go... To be honest, they are a challenge, some years they will accept any bug, pest or desease around as if they were magnetic. They loose vigor and need time to recover. Then suddenly they grow like crazy and...

I have been reading this forum for many years and finally took the step last October to start posting. I live in Belgium and been growing orchids for more than 40 years. I grew in a greenhouse but after moving house in 2006 I had to go back to indoor growing. My collection has room for ±120...

Time to share another family picture. First time blooming of my plant (flowered beginning of this year) I wished I had also taken a picture when it was fully open.

Another family member in flower today.

I would like to share another family picture. One flower open another one in the making... Very similar to my lawrenceanum fma hyeanum picture I also see the slight reddish hue at the end of the petals when I take the picture in my dark walled area with cool white ring LED; but when I take a...

I would like to share another family picture. Second time blooming of the plant

My absolute most favorite albino !!! First flowering of two young plants earlier this year I had purchased way in 2019. To be honest getting new fans mature and healthy is still a bit of a challenge.... new fans are growing but I don't like the brown area that develops on older leaves ...

Flowering ended mid of april... then the painful waiting started for a new fan, seems that never will come. Almost got desparate as I saw the flowered fan degrading and six months had passed, but since last week I can relax a bit.

With so many intermixed and wrong labeled 'maudiae' hybrids and so many lawrencianum variants in culture you can never be sure. I would have liked to see a bit more developed lip and maybe a more horseshoe staminode shape, a bit brighter green coloring to better match the old Desbois'...

another (a bit older) family picture - in fact the plant is working on a new flower but taking it's time... will add to this post for comparing when open

(*) bought as this albino form but on flowering sadly it got "botanically disqualified" for having small anthocyanin (red) dots - I still love it very much and for sure it deserves a place in my collection!

This great site and all your nice comments on my previous posts are so inviting to share more! My Paph addiction resulted in 10 yrs 'simple windowsill' then 15 yrs 'greenhouse' and finally 15 yrs 'in house LED light' growing area. With limited space I focus mainly on albino slipper species. As...

Thank you all for the warm welcome on slippertalk and for all nice comments to my first posts. Hope you don't mind for sharing another albino species that has flowered a few weeks ago.

Sharing another albino species in my collection that first flowered last september. I like the fact that absence of colors makes you appreciate the finer details (veins, cilia, warts, shapes) so much more. I always cut the first flower after it got it's final shapes and curves so the plant can...

Second flowering after a bit of struggling with spiderrmites last year. (hard to keep humity in house high enough during summer period.) It is not my favorite albino species, but I still like it's delicate colors.

Plant was bought as a seedling, first flowering, all my plants are grown indoor under LED lights.