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Originally Posted by katrina
leaf -- Paph malipoense is fragrant. Smells like raspberries! Mine is in spike right now!
I think micranthum is fragrant too but I can't remember for sure and mine is years away from blooming.
I don't grow too many paphs these days (just 3) but I love these ginormous pouch paphs.
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I tend to have the best luck at finding the clones that are the rare exception to being fragrant. :| With a few orchids, I have had to try a few times before getting a fragrant clone.
Interestingly enough, I have been reading about why 'fragrant' flowers are not fragrant any more. The breeding has been going in the direction for bigger, longer lasting flowers and, as fragrance sometimes shortens the blooming period, it often gets shuffled aside. It is happening to roses, too, and many other flowers. Even some carnations have lost their famous scent! When I am buying orchids that are 'fragrant', I am often getting seedlings from attempts at breeding to win orchid shows....
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