Paphiopedilum venustum var album

[unhappykat]

I just got this monday and figured I would show it before something happened to the poor thing.

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k...1-1_edited.jpg

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k...2_edited-5.jpg

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k...3_edited-4.jpg

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k...1_edited-5.jpg

couldnt get a perfect photo, flower was too dimensional and the camera wouldnt stop focusing on just the pouch or petal tips, i will try for a better one tomorrow.

[DebsC]

It's really neat!!! I've wanted one of these for quite some time but I've never seen anything except a picture of it.

Is it a fairly good sized flower for a paph?

Your plant looks to be large and in pristine condition.

Mind me asking where you purchased it?

Thanks for posting your pictures, just makes me want this one more!!!

[CoolPhrog]

Great flower, Kat! The slipper looks like an old man's nose!!...

[gmdiaz]

This is one that I don't have but is on my list! Where did you find yours?

Really cool one!

Thanks for posting the photos!

[unhappykat]

my picture is misleading. The actual plant is less than ten inches wide growing in a three inch pot with one flower about three inches or so wide. It came from a grower named Bruce Rogers who deals mainly with sobralias but has other oddities as well. H doesnt do retail sales though you can contact him and possibly work something out, I got this one because our society invited him to speak and he brought a selection of blooming items for sale. I believe he works with the Orchid Zone in their Sobralia hybridizing program, I will post his address a little later. I paid I think he was charging 25-30 for them. I would say that this is a smaller flower as far as paphs are concerned but good size for a species.