Paph. lowii ?

[tomkalina]

In bloom this morning. Bought this from Taylor Orchids many years ago labelled "Paph. New Species - lowii-like". I think it's similar to the Orchids Ltd. clone named 'Horizontal'. Horizontal natural spread = 14.7 cm. Anyone know if it's ever been formally described as a variety of lowii?

 

[jacqi]

It kinda looks like lowii, but the coloration is too light and the petals are to
horizontal. Maybe a natural cross with an alba?

 

[JAB]

Whatever it is, she is gorgeous!

 

[SlipperFan]

Looks like lowii to me. This species does have some variation.

 

[Ozpaph]

lowii with horizontal petals....

 

[Fabrice]

lowii with horizontal petals....

Yes it is.

 

[Spaph]

Great to see this form, I wish I had one!

 

[Paul]

That's a nice lowii, very horizontal but pure lowii. There is so much variations in this wonderful species!!:clap:

 

[tomkalina]

Thanks All - May self it and breed it with one of our roths to remake Julius.

 

[Fabrice]

If you have a roth with almost horizontal petals, it would be a good idea.

 

[Spaph]

Please self it!

 

[tomkalina]

I will self it and store the remaining pollen. None of our roths are in bloom at this time.

 

[naoki]

Cool, it will be interesting to see whether all kids have the same traits! Looking at the older thread here, it looks very similar as you pointed out (pale dorsal, hairy inflorescence stem etc.). It is too bad that lineage info and original locality data are lost most of the time in orchid world (quite a contrast to carnivorous plants world). It would be nice to see if this is a regional variation or not (or just they are related plants). It is not easy to find regionally pure species.

 

[valenzino]

will be nice to breed it in future with OL "horizontal"

 

[tomkalina]

Valenzino, I think ours and the OL plant are the same clone. I bought ours from Taylor. Orchids and I believe Jerry Fischer did as well.

 

[Scott Ware]

Several years ago Ray Rands brought in some plants from Borneo that were labeled as Paph. lowii and designated as var. 'white dorsal'. This flower is exactly what those looked like.

 

[tomkalina]

Could be where Taylor got their clone. We all did a lot of business with Ray back in the day.