Paphiopedilum Last Isabel - 1st bloom

[DYP]

This plant was acquired about 19mths ago from a local vendor.
The bud appeared in June of last year and took nearly 6 months before the emergence of the spike as I began to have doubts if a bud blast will take place.
Nevertheless I am glad that the spike formed and the plant rewarded me with 2 flowers.

From comparison with online research, I thought this plant looks smaller in comparison. Nevertheless, this is my first in blooming a multiflora and the flowers ushered in the new year.

 

[Paphman910]

Looks a lot like Paphiopedilum stonei. Beautiful flowers BTW!

 

[Ozpaph]

a lot of stonei

 

[NYEric]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[GuRu]

Could it be your plant is not Paphiopedilum 'Last Isabel' but Paphiopedilum 'Lady Isobel' which is P. rothschildianum x P. stonei and an old cross made for the first time in 1897.

 

[Tom-DE]

Could it be your plant is not Paphiopedilum 'Last Isabel' but Paphiopedilum 'Lady Isobel' which is P. rothschildianum x P. stonei and an old cross made for the first time in 1897.

Is it Isabel or Isobel or Isabella? I have seen them all here...carelessly spelling? What I know is Lady Isabel

 

[emydura]

Is it Isabel or Isobel or Isabella? I have seen them all here...carelessly spelling? What I know is Lady Isabel

It is Isobel. It was mistakenly registered as Isabel but the spelling of the person it was named after was Isobel. So it has been corrected.

It doesn't look like Lady Isobel to me though. All I am seeing is stonei.

 

[Tom-DE]

It is Isobel. It was mistakenly registered as Isabel but the spelling of the person it was named after was Isobel. So it has been corrected.

It doesn't look like Lady Isobel to me though. All I am seeing is stonei.

Thank you for clarifying that.

 

[Hilmar]

that looks like stonei species, nothing to be seen from rothschildianum

 

[DYP]

Could it be your plant is not Paphiopedilum 'Last Isabel' but Paphiopedilum 'Lady Isobel' which is P. rothschildianum x P. stonei and an old cross made for the first time in 1897.

@GuRu, you are right. I noticed the typo due to the tablets autocorrect functiom. But i could not make the correctipn after posting
As many have pointed put, this plant has a lot of stonei in it. It certainly is not what I expect.
However, I am still thankful since this is my first multiflora bloom.

 

[DYP]

It is Isobel. It was mistakenly registered as Isabel but the spelling of the person it was named after was Isobel. So it has been corrected.

It doesn't look like Lady Isobel to me though. All I am seeing is stonei.

Thank you for clarifying that the right name is Isobel instead of Isabel.

 

[Jpari]

Sorry, I am late to the party on the name of this one. As has been pointed out the name is correctly Isobel. The cross was named for Lady Isobel Stanley, the daughter of the 16th Earl of Derby, by Thomas Statter Esq. in 1897. The record does not reflect the relationship between the Stanley’s and the Statters, other than that the Statters both senior and younger were land agents for the Stanleys. I like to think that perhaps, Lady Isobel was a heart throb of young Thomas. However, there is no evidence of this, just the romantic in me.

 

[littlefrog]

Thank you for clarifying that.

Although it is still mostly wrong on people's tags...

 

[Justin]

It looks to be a straight stonei.

 

[Ray]

I think not. It is far too “open”, compared to any stonei I have seen. Yeah, stonei seems to have dominated the appearance genetics, but the upright dorsal and wide petals look to be roths”.

 

[Jmoney]

that is wild. I have never seen a LI so dominated by stonei. it *almost* looks like straight stonei but as Ray notes the petals are pretty wide out...still, if stonei was the pod parent....you never know

 

[Justin]

Looking at it again, I can see that roth stance now.

 

[Tony]

I'd be curious to see a better shot of the staminode.

 

[emydura]

I have never seen a Lady Isobel look even remotely like that. Primary hybrids are pretty stable. They don't fluctuate wildly from one extreme to another. I could believe it was Lady Isobel x stonei. I guess another possibility is it is a Lady Isobel secondary hybrid (ie Lady Isobel x Lady Isobel). In that case, this outcome is possible. But not as a primary hybrid.