Superbiens var curtisii, Superbiens var. superbiens superbiens var .???

[Rick]

I doubt this will help much but I recently got this plant in bud from Rick H (who got it from a grower in Hawaii).

It came in labeled as P. curtisii. I'm sure its seed grown and not wild collected.

 

[Happypaphy7]

See, this just adds to more to the already confusing issues.
The leaves on this curtisii is not silver but green based.

 

[NYEric]

What does how it's labeled have to do with its true identity.

 

[Rick]

What does how it's labeled have to do with its true identity.

Exactly!

We don't have clean Chain of Custody from collection or parentage on any of our plants. And non existent DNA data of any plants from cleanly documented / verified wild populations.

So verifying anything by visual ID is pretty much up for fun speculation and discussion.

 

[NYEric]

BTW, who won the bid on that album superbiens from OZ last night!

 

[troy]

I won!!! it's an album so I won just to throw it away hahaha j.k. you should look into the ones with color

 

[C. Rothschild]

The second picture on the right looks like my P. Superbiens. I have no reason to think it's anything else or wild collected.

 

[Bjorn]

I doubt this will help much but I recently got this plant in bud from Rick H (who got it from a grower in Hawaii).

It came in labeled as P. curtisii. I'm sure its seed grown and not wild collected.

I have another seedling labelled curtisii with such leaves, so which is which, now I am getting confused. perhaps we should lump those two int one; Paphiopedilum superbiens var. variabilis?:evil:

 

[NYEric]

This is superbiens. The leaves don't match curtsii.