micranthum

[Ernie]

Come on, Dot. You have to have some micranthums!

-Ernie

 

[Leo Schordje]

Leo, all of your shown micranthum flowers are lovely but I like the last one most. Furthermore this seems to be close to the form which represents that type of micranthum which has been found in the region of 'Guangxi' (sorry to correct you). Even the foliage of this 'Guangxi' type differs from the foliage of the common micranthum. It is more dark green almost black-green and less clearly motteled.

Best regardas from Germany, rudolf

I agree that the last flower looks more like the GuangXi type, but the foliage on all three shown is more like the 'normal' types with lots of tesselation. So I am not sure what to call them. I have a couple of the true GuangXi type that came from Sam Tsui that do have the dark leaves that you describe. The flowers are a little more yellow with less green in the petals &dorsal sepal, and the pouch is white with only a little touch of pink near the column. The one that has bloomed of the ones I got from Sam, had defects in the flower so I do not have a good photo that I would be willing to share. One of these days I will do a whole web-page with all the flowers and foliage types I have, but there just never seems to be time.

No problem on the correction Rudolf, I think the name Kwong See is the old Wade-Giles transliteration of the Cantonese name for the same region that in the PinYing transliteration of Mandarin is called GuangXi. Same place different transliterations of the Chinese to English. I believe the Chinese characters (hanzi) would be identical for the two names. At least I think that is why that names look so different, I could be wrong, but this this my guess. (I tried to learn Chinese once, gave up after two semesters. I just don't have the ear, or the vocal control needed to learn an inflected language as an over 40 year old adult).

Thanks for the kind words.

 

[paphjoint]

Well done !!

 

[Hakone]

micranthum Kwong See look like micranthum var. eburneum

 

[biothanasis]

TY so much for the growing info Leo...

 

[Rick]

I think this was a very information filled thread. Thanks Leo.

Where ever this type comes from I think its one of the better balanced looking clones as far as the relative size of the petals to the pouch.

 

[SlipperFan]

Where ever this type comes from I think its one of the better balanced looking clones as far as the relative size of the petals to the pouch.

That's kinda why I've not gotten into micranthums...

 

[Leo Schordje]

That's kinda why I've not gotten into micranthums...

Hey Dot,
Ernie and I will make a convert out of you yet. I see micranthum in your future. :evil:

 

[GuRu]

micranthum Kwong See look like micranthum var. eburneum

No Hakone, P. micranthum var. eburneum and micranthum 'Guangxi' are different things. The differences are not only in shape, colouration of the bloom and I think their foliage too but also in their origins.
P. micranthum var. eburneum has been found in the East of the Guizhou plateau and micranthum 'Guangxi' in the West of Guangxi. The Chinese province Guizhou borders on the province Guangxi in the North so there must be a great distance between the two habitats in North-South direction.
As far as I know is the 'Guangxi' type described as P. micranthum var. extendatum (Jack Fowlie in Orchid Digest 57(4): 186. 1993).
Best regards from Germany, rudolf

 

[SlipperFan]

Hey Dot,
Ernie and I will make a convert out of you yet. I see micranthum in your future. :evil:

You're on!

 

[cnycharles]

very nice flowers

 

[labskaus]

Your micranthum is very nice (awardable?) since it has great shape, but I like the second of the Kwang Sees even better.

 

[wonderlen3000]

Very beautiful. If i have to have just one paph species, micranthum will be on my top list. =n I have a hard time growing micranthum so I try the next best thing, (Fanaticum x micranthum).