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Originally Posted by Lady Tottington
oh, and which are the multi-floral types of paphs that I could grow?
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That depends on if you want the sequential bloomers (Cochlopetalums) or simultaneous ones (Pardalopetalum and Coryopedilum). Cochlopetalums like Pinocchio and victoria-regina have mostly pink or white flowers with bucket-shaped pouches. They can bloom for very long periods of time and are mostly easy to grow - great plants for a beginning grower.
The Pardalopetalums like lowii I don't have a lot of experience with personally. They have flowers in shades of pink, brown, and yellow, with moderately long, often spoon-shaped, horizontal petals. Good ones can be striking. they're not the easiest, but not too difficult either.
The Coryopedilums are the most striking group of Paphs, with HUGE flowers having either horizontal or long, drooping, spiralling petals. The flowers of Paph rothschildianum, the king of Paphs, can be a foot across, while Paph sanderianum has the longest petals of any flower in the world, at over 3 feet on outstanding clones. These types are generally extremely slow-growing and often need to be multigrowth to bloom. They become enormous plants and even babies flowering for the first time usually have around a 2 foot leafspan. With these it's not so much that they're difficult, they're just so slow, and they can be difficult to bloom once they mature. If you're going to buy one, try to get a blooming sized division of a hybrid like Lady Isabel. You can often get them for around $75.
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