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Originally Posted by NYCorchidman
delenatii is not an epiphyte. They usually live on small pockets or crevice on rocks, and the roots are usually buried in sands with little moss or decayed leaf litter unlike many other paphs.
Regular paph culture is fine for this one.
Parvi flowers usually are short-lived compared to some others in the genus.
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I'm not doubting your statement. It wouldn't be a stretch at all for
Paph delenatii to be a lithophyte. I'm tentatively stating that
Paph delenatii is an epiphyte based off of what little bit of information on their habitat that I could find on the web. Plus, I couldn't find photos to verify whether or not
Paph delenatii truly is an epiphyte or not.
So...
If you don't mind me asking. If
Paph delenatii is not an epiphyte, how were you able to verify that it truly is a lithophyte and what/where are those sources? If your answer is correct, I'd like to know how it's correct.
I got curious about what you said and did a bit more digging and I found something that is contrary to what I've read before about
Paph delenatii and its habitat.
Was your source perhaps this one?
Paphiopedilum delenatii
Perhaps it was another source?
If the above link was your source, I'm quite surprised that it says that it is a lithophyte of granitic rocks rather than limestone. That is still something quite radically different from what I understood about Paphs from the section Parvisepalum.
Let me be clearer…
If it is true that
Paph delenatii is a
lithophyte of
granitic rocks, then it is still an outlier out of all the Paphs in the section Parvisepalum.
Why?
Because
all the other Paphs in section Parvisepalum known in the hobby are
lithophytes growing on
limestone rocks.
It would be appreciated if you could help provide the correct information.
Thank you.
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