Paph rungsuriyanum & canhii

[Tom-DE]

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Now I am really jealous!!!! Thank you for the plant photos.

 

[GuRu]

Wow, holy cow, awesome...don't know what to say more. Congrats to The Link and Alex for growing these beauties.
To be honest, I expected seeing flowering plants which grow in collections not that early. Maybe I was a bit overslept expecting these plants much later for sale in nurseries.

 

[kiwi]

Very nice. What media do you have them in please?

 

[Alex]

Mine are just in Seramis clay granules, watered with rain water and fed quite rarely

 

[e-spice]

Some new species are "eehhh", not these two, especially that rungsuriyanum.

 

[NYEric]

canhii has not been legally exported. Neither has rung, I believe.

 

[jokerpass]

That is what I thought, I don't think these 2 species are legal yet. The picture posted above (in a nursery), I have seen that picture before somewhere. I like Paph rungsuriyanum a lot but since it is not legal and a cool growing species, I will not be able to grow it anyway.....it is too bad....

 

[musa]

How is it possible that I found rungs. crosses in an Orchid fair, wouldn't they be illegal, too?

 

[Rockbend]

The P. rungsuriyanum article by Olaf Gruss in the new issue of the AOS Bulletin describes the habitat temperatures as more 'intermediate' than 'cool' IMO: summer highs up to the mid-80s and winter lows to the mid-50s. I have read of growers outside the US successfully growing them much warmer than that.

Hoping they become legally available soon!

 

[NYEric]

(that I bought at a major show from a very reputable nursery)

Unless you are in VN, no, you didn't.

 

[Alex]

Unless you are in VN, no, you didn't.

NYEric, strange for you to contradict me on this, I most certainly did - at one of the two biggest orchid shows in the UK. I didn’t comment on the legality of that offering, which may be what you refer to. But I can assure you that’s exactly what happened. And not in Vietnam.

 

[Alex]

Or did you mean in the sense that the nursery couldn’t possibly be reputable?

 

[Guldal]

Or did you mean in the sense that the nursery couldn’t possibly be reputable?

I think, he finds that the nursery couldn't be reputable, unless of ill repute... as it might be difficult to find these species imported with the correct CITES-allowances and thus legal. But sometimes you, actually, see some rare species with the correct paperwork done, God knows how?
On the other hand: I don't think many of species in trade (except those from a pre-CITES lineage), that we accept without difficulties, might really hold up for scrutiny. The plants, we have, might clearly have been grown from seed in a nursery. But - I might have got this wrong - I think, the nursery owner, that sold it to us, should be able to produce evidence, that the parent(s) of the plant is (are) legit and not jungle collected?

 

[NYEric]

rung has been propagated, however no legal export. Canh, not yet.

 

[Tom-DE]

Is the flower long-lasting?