P. Rosetti "Fowlers" AM/AOS

[Eric Muehlbauer]

An old one....Maudiae x insigne. Just got it...now all I need is Madame Maurice Mehrtens!

 

[Ozpaph]

thats a lovely flower. Must have been insigne sanderae as a parent.
(we need to work on your focus, though).

 

[Eric Muehlbauer]

I need to stop using my cell phone to take orchid pictures!

 

[likespaphs]

can you tap on the screen of your phone to tell the camera where to focus?

 

[tim]

To the best of my knowledge, although often purporting to have an AOS award, this carries only an AM/RHS from the very early 1900s. The clonal name 'Fowler's' refers to J. Gurney Fowler, an RHS judge at the turn of the century and an avid collector of paphs. Of interest to note is its apparent sterility as a parent, and in fact very little else has been done in terms of crossing Maudiae (or Barbata-dominated) plants with insigne-group plants. Those which have been made, including recent complex (insigne-group) crosses with Maudiae-types have been largely sterile as well.

 

[Migrant13]

Thanks for picture Eric and thanks Tim for that interesting info. Eric if you have an iPhone try a free app called "Mag Light" which makes your camera lens more of a zoom lens and allows for better adjustment of light. I like it for orchid close ups and seems to take sharper pictures.

 

[PaphMadMan]

To the best of my knowledge, although often purporting to have an AOS award, this carries only an AM/RHS from the very early 1900s. The clonal name 'Fowler's' refers to J. Gurney Fowler, an RHS judge at the turn of the century and an avid collector of paphs. Of interest to note is its apparent sterility as a parent, and in fact very little else has been done in terms of crossing Maudiae (or Barbata-dominated) plants with insigne-group plants. Those which have been made, including recent complex (insigne-group) crosses with Maudiae-types have been largely sterile as well.

OrchidWiz has a record for Paph. Rosetti 'Fowlers' AM/AOS, 84pts, January 19 1991, Great Plains Regional Monthly Judging, Oklahoma City, exhibited by Dr. John C. Kramer of Tulsa, photo in AQ Vol. 23 (1992) No. 1 page 31. Strangely detailed to be apocryphal.

9 registered hybrids, none of which have any registered offspring. This line didn't go far in breeding, but there are plenty of complex insigne-group hybrids that do have Paph Maudiae and similar types back a few generations in the family tree, so not all lines are a dead end.

 

[Ozpaph]

great history, thanks all.

 

[SlipperFan]

Nice shape.