This is a primary hybrid between Paph. spicerianum and Paph. insigne. It is a very hardy plant. Honestly, I've never seen anything like that with Paphios. And because it is hardy, people here plant it everywhere. It seems to me that it grows wherever you plant it. If you blink, it end up growing even on the asphaltic road floor
!!! It is so common that orchid collectors don’t give a dime for it.
I once gave a single fan to my mom recommending that she planted it using tree fern fiber. She forgot about the tree fern fiber and planted it in a large pot filled with pure earth. A few years later I asked her about the lady slipper orchid I had given her and she said: 'Oh, it's flowering now, go see it in the backyard'. I couldn't believe in what I saw! Twenty-six floral stems, half of them with two flowers and two of them with three - believe it or not!! - three perfectly formed flowers! I had the same plant (hers was a piece of mine) grown the standard way and never, never got more than a moderate number of flowers and always one per stem!
In the photos are two different clones, the one at right being very superior than the other.
Paphiopedilum Leeanum
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