Paph wolterianum

[Skoester]

‘Pink Wings’ x ‘Victoria’ from Hillsview. I like the green-rimmed pouch.

 

[Tom-DE]

Very nice!
I love this group but they are in such a mess! Under untrained eyes, the flowers look too similar/same..some of them shouldn't have been rewarded as separate species IMO...the plants/leaves/size may look very different though.

 

[Skoester]

Yes, I listed it as shown on the label but I’ve read some of the discussions about it vs appletonianum and I’m not sure what is what.

 

[Tom-DE]

Yours has a very tall spike...how big is the flower?
My appletonianum is still in bloom(6-7 weeks now)...11cm NS. The LS is only 6"...different leaf markings and colors compared to your plant. The flower stem is 5-6" tall. What an intersting group!

 

[Ozpaph]

good colour saturation

 

[BrucherT]

Wonderful and so rarely seen. I can’t tell it from appletoniam or hainanense; who can point out the differences?

 

[Happypaphy7]

There are lots of discussions about this in the old threads, I think.

 

[Skoester]

Yours has a very tall spike...how big is the flower?
My appletonianum is still in bloom(6-7 weeks now)...11cm NS. The LS is only 6"...different leaf markings and colors compared to your plant. The flower stem is 5-6" tall. What an intersting group!

Tom, I haven’t had any experience measuring orchids. I googled how to measure and surprisingly didn’t find much. Illustrations would help

From tip to tip, with no manipulation by me which is what I’m assuming “natural spread” means, the NS is 9cm. Not sure how to measure lateral spread

 

[Tom-DE]

That is about right, 8-10cm for most of them. My appletonianum flower is slightly over 10cm but it is a mature plant with 7-8 growths.
I bought a few other species/varieties in this group last few months and the plants look different but I expect the flowers are very similar. I am going to lose my hainanense to root rot, when that happens, I won't buy another one just because its flower is so similar to appletonianum.

 

[Skoester]

That is about right, 8-10cm for most of them. My appletonianum flower is slightly over 10cm but it is a mature plant with 7-8 growths.
I bought a few other species/varieties in this group last few months and the plants look different but I expect the flowers are very similar. I am going to lose my hainanense to root rot, when that happens, I won't buy another one just because its flower is so similar to appletonianum.

My hainanense is about to bloom and I’m curious as to how different it will look from the wolterianum.

 

[BrucherT]

That is about right, 8-10cm for most of them. My appletonianum flower is slightly over 10cm but it is a mature plant with 7-8 growths.
I bought a few other species/varieties in this group last few months and the plants look different but I expect the flowers are very similar. I am going to lose my hainanense to root rot, when that happens, I won't buy another one just because its flower is so similar to appletonianum.

No saving it? Repot, peroxide the roots, KelPak? You sound fatalistically resigned….

 

[Tom-DE]

No saving it? Repot, peroxide the roots, KelPak? You sound fatalistically resigned….

trying but not much hope I am afraid.

 

[Tom-DE]

My hainanense is about to bloom and I’m curious as to how different it will look from the wolterianum.

any update on this? Is your wolterianum still going strong? My appletonianum flower is still hanging there, two and a half months now...for sure it is a very long-lasting flower in my book.

 

[UweM]

A good overview with many pictures of these individual species or varieties on this topic can be found here:

https://www.paphs.de/en/species

and pics from Paph. wolterianum here:

https://www.paphs.de/en/species/309-wolterianum

 

[Skoester]

any update on this? Is your wolterianum still going strong? My appletonianum flower is still hanging there, two and a half months now...for sure it is a very long-lasting flower in my book.

Yes, the bloom is still looking great. No signs of losing it anytime soon.