Paphiopedilum micranthum

[cxcanh]

My P.micranthum just opened 2 days ago.

 

[Ozpaph]

nice photo!

 

[NYEric]

Nice. Thanx for sharing.

 

[likespaphs]

very nice

 

[Lycaste53]

Very nice,
best regards, Gina

 

[biothanasis]

Fantastic!!!!!! :clap:

 

[Erythrone]

So cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Bob in Albany N.Y.]

Nice one. I have trouble getting them to bloom. I get a sheath and then they sit there and eventually get water in the crown and there goes the bud.

 

[W. Beetus]

Nice bloom!

 

[SlipperFan]

Interesting angle.

 

[SlipperKing]

Not a very large flower is it Cxcanh?

 

[Gcroz]

Nice one. I have trouble getting them to bloom. I get a sheath and then they sit there and eventually get water in the crown and there goes the bud.

Same thing happens to me! Also, I was under the impression that micranthum "spikes" were much longer than that in this photo.

Lovely picture by the way!

 

[Paph_LdyMacBeth]

I really like the photo!

 

[cxcanh]

Thank you all for your viewing and commenting

@SlipperKing: this is one of largest I have for this year I thinks (some going to bloom)
@Gcroz: sometime micranthum "spikes" short (10cm) and sometime also longer (20-25 cm). This one about 12 (not 100%, I just remember somehow)

 

[SelectOrchids]

They came from China last autumn in bud, freshly collected like every year before the New Year, to be used as pot plant. That's why some have very short flower spikes as they are stressed. Many abort their flower spike too. There are huge plants with huge buds, but they are more expensive and never make it to Vietnam. The small flowered type like these are sold less than 1rmb/growth in bud to the Vietnamese traders, minimum quantity 2000 plants in bud. At a point many Vietnamese sellers will sell them as coming from Vietnam, and they are everywhere. Yesterday I just saw two more boxes with one box of armeniacum. The flowers can be really small, because with experience one can screen the flower quality and size acccording to the sheat in the crown. The leaf size has less meaning, there are huge leaf small flowers plants, and my largest micranthum has very short and very wide leaves. The size and shape of the bract is the key in fact, and the Chinese prescreen all the plants. Good ones are much more expensive.


The vietnamese micranthum in bud are quite hard to get in big quantities and good condition.

 

[toddybear]

Excellent...mine blasted

 

[jtrmd]

nice!

 

[cxcanh]

Another one just blooming.

 

[SlipperFan]

Sweet!

 

[NYEric]

Why are these so hard to bloom!?!