C
Cheyenne
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This plant is a piece that came from a friend that got it from a botanical garden he works for. The garden only has orchid records that go back to 1900. This plant was brought to the collection before that. The records card says paph superbiens x paph stonei var platyanium(I think I spelled that wrong, I don't have the card in front of me). Anyway for those that don't know this variety of stonei was a single stonei plant that is believed to be a peloric. So it had very wide petals which comes through nicely in this hybrid. Dr. Orchid has posted pics of this hybrid with a award 'bufordese'(spelling). That was a division from the original plant, I think these are from the same plant, when you see it in person it is amazing and huge. But mine has been in the botanical garden for a hundred + years so it is hard to tell where the divisions originated from. I have three divisons of this and I am willing to part with one if anyone is interested. Zepherus orchids had a division on there site for $800. I would take considerably less than that. Please feel free to add anything to the history of this plant or correct me if you know it.