Paph Vinicolor in bloom

[NYCorchidman]

This is one of my many (paph.Supersuk 'Eureka' AM/AOS × Paph.Raisin Pie 'Hsinying') ×Sib. phew~ that was long.

These seem to be very common along with Napa Valley cross (not going to write out the whole thing but it's a alba maudiae type). Actually, two stores I visit often alway have lots of these two all year long.

Many of them look similar but sometimes there are some special ones with unique patterns on the leaves or different flower shape.

Thing is they are mostly sold in bud, so you have to be lucky what you might end up with.

I bought a whole bunch of them, tossed some ugly ones I didn't like and kept a few I like.

Now this latest bloom turned out very uniqe in that it is almost vinicolor while almost all of these are usually coloratum.

I like how glossy and how flat on the vertical plane the flower is. definitely a keeper for me.