Need Help On Paph. Gift - Orchid Board

landanew · #1 01-27-2011, 05:06 PM

I was given this Paph. as a gift, last year. I am a newbie and what little I know is about Phals. This guy has been blooming non stop from the beginning. I have added a picture of the plant as well as the tag. What is it's name? And should I expect it to keep on blooming? She is on the 7th one, each bloom last about a month or so.

The first two pictures were when I first received her and the last two are her today. As you can see she has grown a bunch.

Brad

Daethen · #2 01-27-2011, 05:13 PM

I don't know if she has any other name, but she sure is pretty! Looks like she likes you, too.

quiltergal · #3 01-27-2011, 05:50 PM

I'll look up the name for you when I get home from work. It definitely has all the characteristics of chamberlainianum (though I think that has been renamed liemianum). As you have discovered it is a sequential bloomer that just won't quit (also a characteristic of liemianum). I have a liemianum that bloomed for 2 years straight. It got kind of ratty looking and I finally cut the spike off.

Shirley · #4 01-27-2011, 10:15 PM

Looks to me like a Paph. Pinocchio!

quiltergal · #5 01-28-2011, 02:55 AM

Paph. chamberlainianum x moquettianum = Paph. Utgard.

Chamberlainianum is a distint species from liemianum. My mistake there. Paph. Pinocchio is glaucophylum x primulinum. They all do look rather similar and have similar characteristics.

RosieC · #6 01-28-2011, 07:28 AM

Just to expand on the name Terri has given.

Your tag tells you that you have a cross. The x at the end of the first line seperates the two parents names.

The parents are Paph. chamberlainianum & Paph moquettianum, two species paphs.

The part in quotes 'Wolf Lake' and 'Orchidheights' are cultavar names, these are names given to a specific individual plant. In this case both of those specific plants have also been awarded. HCC/AOS tells you that it was given an HCC award from the American Orchid Society. A plant can only carry a cultivar name, and the associated award if it was cloned or divided from the original with that name. Even a seedling from a self cross of the original cannot carry the same cultivar name and award.

So, two awarded individuals were crossed to make your plant. Terri has looked up that a hybrid of any Paph. chamberlainianum with any Paph. moquettianum can use the name Paph. Utgard. The name on your tag is a correct ID of the plant, but as Paph. Utgard is also correct for you plant and far easier to remember I would use that. It's possible the tag was written before the cross was registered, or by someone who was not aware of the registered name. It also gives a seller the chance to show the awards on the two parents by using those on the ID.

RosieC · #7 01-28-2011, 07:41 AM

Oh yeah, and it does look a lot like Paph Pinocchio. If it's anything like that, mine just keeps producing flowers one after the other. It did have a bit of a break before the last flower with a bud very slowly forming during the break, but previous ones were close behind each other.

landanew · #8 01-28-2011, 03:00 PM

A couple of months ago it had three blooms blooming at the same time, is that usual?

Brad

landanew · #9 01-28-2011, 03:01 PM

A picture.

skyheaven · #10 01-28-2011, 03:11 PM

They can bloom for a very long time. I have one simaller and she has been blooming for a year. I was told they can bloom up to two years on the same stem. By then you should get a baby and that one should start a bloom. So you can enjoy blooms for a very long time if they like there spot and your love.