Paph. HELLO DOLLY (Doll's Kobald x thaianum)

[Tara]

My first flower from this miniature, the flower is about 8cm wing tip to wing tip and the fan itself is about 10cms across, which seems like a good grow space to flower ratio . The pouch is a bit lop sided, I'll be interested to see if the second flower is straighter.

Paph. HELLO DOLLY (Doll's Kobald x thaianum) by Tara Rerrie, on Flickr

Paph Hello Dolly a by Tara Rerrie, on Flickr

 

[P.K.Hansen]

Nice color. I have two in low bud. First time bloomers, so no idea how they look.
The pics Michael Tibbs has on his website are very different from your flower. On his the lip and petals are the same color, and the dorsal is lighter colored.

 

[Tara]

It is different isn’t it. Had thought about emailing him as he is the source of this plant, I’ll be interested to see pics of your blooms when they pop

 

[P.K.Hansen]

Mine are from him too

 

[fibre]

A very nice outcome!

 

[Ozpaph]

other than colour the thaianum didnt help round out the shape.

 

[P.K.Hansen]

This is the pic we mentioned. A very different paph.
I have Michaels permission to use it.

 

[Happypaphy7]

You can see why that example was selected to represent the cross for sales. It is very much Doll's Kobold and the thaianum influence is also very much present in the shape, washed out color and the markings on the staminode.
Tara's flower is heavily influence by charlesworthiii red color with henryanum shape. I think it is also very cute and different.
Even with a hybrid like this with only three species involved, the results can be quite surprising. That's the fun of blooming out hybrids.

 

[BrucherT]

Yours wins the color saturation contest.

 

[Guldal]

It is different isn’t it.

Which is actually not a big surprise - in some clones the influence from one of the parents might be stronger than in other clones, where traits from the other parent might dominate. I haven't got a clue about genetics, but when you look at siblings from the same cross, you will see how different they can turn out.

 

[LadySlipper]

Lovely...Very nice color. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Tara]

To be clear I’m very happy with my little paph but I hope the second one is closer to the orig photo on the site

 

[Ozpaph]

That's way better