is this for real?

[ehanes7612]

never heard of a tigrinum alba

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Paphiopedi...761428?hash=item2cd9ceac54:g:ABoAAOSwM9xbe0KF

 

[Ozpaph]

ask for a photo of the flower

 

[John M]

There is a flower photo next to the photo of the foliage.

 

[Ozpaph]

im missed that. Cant tell if its a photoshop or not. Id want to see an unblurred multiangle series of the flowers

 

[John M]

im missed that. Cant tell if its a photoshop or not. Id want to see an unblurred multiangle series of the flowers

Agreed. Me too. Would be nice if an album tigrinum existed.

 

[Tom Reddick]

never heard of a tigrinum alba

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Paphiopedi...761428?hash=item2cd9ceac54:g:ABoAAOSwM9xbe0KF

Me either- but I have heard of Photoshop. No way to know 100% for sure- but I use the full Adobe suite for fabric design and the unusual texture and slight blurriness of just the bloom itself screams Photoshop to me.

The price is also too good to be true. A true album form of tigrinum, which at this point would be news to the world, I am thinking $15-20K for a division.

 

[ehanes7612]

seems if there was a tigrinum alba ...the paph world would be screaming...I haven't heard any screams

 

[monocotman]

This is from a well known fraudulent vendor in Belgium. Look at the feedback score. If you want a laugh look at the comments in the negative feedback. Do not touch with a barge pole!!
David

 

[valenzino]

This is a FRAUD for shure!!!....but the plant in flower in the photo is real....and a division like the one for sell will be much more expensive than 950$....that size will be 5-10.000$.
Some plants still exist of the original used for describe the variety...(the real good name should be,with the latest revisions...but free to call how you want... Paph. markianum var. smaragdinum ) and 1-2 other different wild plants use to exist but not shure 100% they still alive...

 

[ehanes7612]

kind of entertaining reading his responses to negative feedback...he gets really angry

he also changed the picture of the actual plant for sale

 

[tomkalina]

Saw a plant labeled Paph. tigrinum v album in Sams greenhouse a couple of years ago, but it was a poor grower and I’m not sure it survived.

 

[Hien]

either you all have very short memory that we did talk about this before,
or very behind in paph species discoveries.

oke:oke:oke:

obviously the dowager mother plant exist at least 9 years ago,
this one could be her great grand child

oke:oke:oke:

http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10827



and I am not sure after 9 years in existence the album of this species still worth 10,000 dollar .
Maybe I am not very good at knowing the real value of album paphs,
but I see most of the prices of white ones from other paph species did come down a lot,
some of them are exact the same price as the colour versions .

 

[Hien]

kind of entertaining reading his responses to negative feedback...he gets really angry

he also changed the picture of the actual plant for sale

ah, quite interesting ,
as your observation ,
why the photo change ?
is the seller a member of this forum ? or at least follows the STF discussions to study the trend , our latest desire , coveting ?

 

[monocotman]

They could well be a lurker on this forum. They have the very latest photos of desirable plants on eBay. Where better to find them?
David

 

[valenzino]

obviously the dowager mother plant exist at least 9 years ago,
this one could be her great grand child


and I am not sure after 9 years in existence the album of this species still worth 10,000 dollar .
Maybe I am not very good at knowing the real value of album paphs,
but I see most of the prices of white ones from other paph species did come down a lot,
some of them are exact the same price as the colour versions .

Paph tigrinum/markianum is well known to be difficult to propagate...
This one have never been artificially propagated...all plants around comes from the same 2-3 mother plants that still growing in Taiwan/japan and ...opposite than many other "Paphs alba forms" they got more expensive than before(same for malipoense album for ex.).

the plant shown in flower is many years in Europe and have been previously unsuccesfully selfed....now again and hope this time will produce seeds and good seedlings as nowadays better medias for tigrinum propagation have been created

 

[edkravcik]

It gets better.... there is a flask of Paph Tigrinya alba for $1950 listed by the same dealer now listed on EBay

 

[edkravcik]

Damn spellcheck... tigrinum alba.

 

[ehanes7612]

Me either- but I have heard of Photoshop. No way to know 100% for sure- but I use the full Adobe suite for fabric design and the unusual texture and slight blurriness of just the bloom itself screams Photoshop to me.

The price is also too good to be true. A true album form of tigrinum, which at this point would be news to the world, I am thinking $15-20K for a division.

it's definitely photoshopped...if you magnify to the individual pixels ..it's fairly obvious

 

[troy]

Lol...

 

[valenzino]

it's definitely photoshopped...if you magnify to the individual pixels ..it's fairly obvious

not photoshopped at all...real....