Paphiopedilum wilheminiaie alike

[paphjoint]

fist flowering of this plant which I've been growing since 2000 - yeah - plant is really tiny and lousy - but the flower is interesting having different colors from the basic wilheminiaie

 

[Rick]

The pouch is redder than normal. It may have just opened, but the petals are not very twisted and lack allot of color. It may be closer to matching the description of Garay rather than what you've been seeing from the rest of us.

What do mean by "tiny and lousy"?

 

[SlipperFan]

It looks like it's about to fly.

 

[Greenpaph]

Amazing that the petals are so horizontal!

 

[paphioboy]

Just thinking.. it looks like it might have a tiny weeny bit of roth or stonei in it... I don't mind having it, if you don't want it, Uri..

 

[Ernie]

Yeah, looks like a stonei pouch almost, just narrower.

-Ernie

 

[JeanLux]

It is a beautiful flower and a strong pict. (again) !!! Jean

 

[emydura]

Yes, I see a bit of stoneii in it as well. Very nice. Looks a bit different that is for sure.

David

 

[labskaus]

The colours are quite nice, actually. Neat flower, and good pic, as always.

Can you tell us the origin of this plant? It looks a bit like the things labeled striatum.

Best wishes, Carsten

 

[paphjoint]

The indonesian ofcourse perhaps Java

 

[SlipperKing]

Uri,
This may help
http://www.orchidspng.com/contrib_garay2.html

It's possible you have bodegomii

 

[Rick]

Uri,
This may help
http://www.orchidspng.com/contrib_garay2.html

It's possible you have bodegomii

Help or hurt:wink:

Garay has some pretty good hair splitting in this one, and no collection local data is associated with his source material (which is very limited) in this article. All of the source material came out of Jo Levey's GH, so we don't even know if we are seeing culturing artifacs or individual plant differences from a variable population.

Garay really pushes on the lack of petal twisting for "true" wilhelminea, but if thats the case there may only be one plant of that description in the US (or maybe the whole of New Guinea), and all the insitu pics are really gardenerioke: