Two different genera within the Cypripediacea family:
Paphiopedilums grow in the Asia/Pacific region, and can breed with each other.
Phragmipediums grow in Central/South American region, and can breed with each other.
Although one or two Paph x Phrag hybrids have been registered, it is generally accepted that the two groups cannot breed with each other.
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Founder of SPCOP (Society to Prevention of Cruelty to Orchid People), with the goal of barring the taxonomists from tinkering with established genera!
I am neither a 'lumper' nor a 'splitter', but I refuse to re-write millions of labels.
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Differences Between a Phrag and a Paph
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