Phragmipedium besssae - two type

[Hakone]

from friend ( lLima )

from Peru typ : plant grows compact never makes stylones when growing



from Ecuador typ : plant always makes stylones when growing

 

[peter.orchid]

both are very nice, I like the Ecuador type!

 

[Shiva]

Both are very nice but the word is not stylone but stolon with stolons for plural.

 

[Kavanaru]

Both are very nice but the word is not stylone but stolon with stolons for plural.

Hehe.... Stylones are very stylish stolons......

 

[Shiva]

Hehe.... Stylones are very stylish stolons......

Maybe he was thinking of Sylvester Stylone...

 

[W. Beetus]

The Ecuadorean looks quite nice!

 

[SlipperFan]

I'd like to have the non-stolonous type, myself!

 

[e-spice]

Both are great!

 

[Chuck]

I'll take any good besseae, stolons or not. It's a little difficult to compare because of the difference in the exposures in the photos but the "Ecuadorean type" looks exactly like the flowers we saw in Ecuador last year ... lovely colour and beautiful balanced, symmetrical flowers.

 

[biothanasis]

Lovely both!!! The Equador type seems happier though!!

 

[SelectOrchids]

Your friend from Lima is most likely in Germany, there is a micranthum I know extremely well on the right of the first photo...

 

[valenzino]

Your friend from Lima is most likely in Germany, there is a micranthum I know extremely well on the right of the first photo...

hahaha....i also noticed it....no way to be wrong with that one...:rollhappy:

 

[Kavanaru]

hahaha....i also noticed it....no way to be wrong with that one...:rollhappy:

ok, now I will expose my "ignorance" independently whether Hakone is placing himself in a ridiculous situation or not.. I have a question:

ok, first WOW! I must admit that as an amateur in paphios I admire when someone can recognize a especies and a particular plant this way.. :clap:

now, could you please expand on this micranthum, and why it is so particular that can be identified only with the leave? (maybe I am blaming myself, but I see nothing else than leave in the pic)... just curiosity about the plant and the way to recognize it... you just made me curious!

Thanks in advance!

 

[Marc]

Xavier, you keep raising my eyebrows with some of the statements you make here. As Ramon allready said please explain.

 

[gonewild]

Someone in Lima could easily have Paph species.

 

[NYEric]

I would have thought that was a curtsii but I didn't look that closely, I will now!?!

 

[Drorchid]

Your first besseae looks a lot like one of ours that also originated from Peru. This one too does not make any stolons, and it self-pollinates (I don't know if yours does that too).

Here is an earlier post about that besseae:
http://www.slippertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10726

Robert