there is a cute story that goes with this paph insigne.
the winnipeg conservatory holds its annual plant sale every year on mothersday.
it.s been our custom to ge each year to the sale and then have breakfast or lunch afterwards.
you have to come early to get the prized plants from tropicals to garden plants. its set up in a big tent and the weather is always cold and misserable.
there is a long lineup and people all carry cardboard boxes for their hoped fornew aquisitions, but mostly to use as a headcover in the misserable wet and rainy weather.
once they let us in, there is a big pushing and shoving to gat to the plants.
wel 14 yrs ago; by the time we managed to get inside, not too much was left over for the pickings. so as not to leave empty handed i grabbed a spiderplant which somehow survived the melee..
it was just barely above freezing but we got it home.
after a few weeks i realized that this was no ordinairy spiderplant; as it had some funny thing portruding from between the leaves.
so my surprise it was a ladyslipper. paph insigne.
this was before computers for us so i grabbed every book from the local library about orchids.
needless to say that was i slipped deep into orchid delerium and havent been cured since.
i have managed to torture many an orchid to a slow but sure death over the years, but this paph refused to follow the others no matter what i threw at it.
i still have it and many divisions from it. well that was my little story.
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