Paph niveum

[Fairorchids]

Bought this plant several years ago. It bloomed once before, but I was away and did not see the flower. It opened just in time to be included in my exhibit at the Deep Cut Orchid Show.

I have not seen enough niveum flowers, to judge whether this one is good, bad or indifferent, so I invite comments from the OB.

Beautiful bloom. I like tiny freckles on it...

[tuvoc]

Nice.

Kim

[quiltergal]

It looks like it has the potential to be a nice round form. It just needs to open up a bit more. The staminoid is a bit cockeyed too. Other than that it's awesome.

[WhiteRabbit]

Gorgeous!

[Paphluvr]

Ditto to quiltergals comments. The only drawback other than the twisted staminode is the space between the petals and the dorsal sepal, which may resolve itself. This is a nice round form of P. niveum and one that I find the most pleasing and desirable.

[Aki_James]

I think it is absolutely gorgeous. I'm no orchid judge so I find its quirks to be part of its beauty!!

I bought a seedling Niveum about a year ago...painfully slow grower for me but the foliage is so wonderful. Do you detect a fragrance? I have never seen one in bloom in real life but I was told some are quite sweetly fragrant.

[NYCorchidman]

Originally Posted by quiltergal

It looks like it has the potential to be a nice round form. It just needs to open up a bit more. The staminoid is a bit cockeyed too. Other than that it's awesome.

That's what I was going to say.

Round form, but cupped.

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Originally Posted by Aki_James

I think it is absolutely gorgeous. I'm no orchid judge so I find its quirks to be part of its beauty!!

I bought a seedling Niveum about a year ago...painfully slow grower for me but the foliage is so wonderful. Do you detect a fragrance? I have never seen one in bloom in real life but I was told some are quite sweetly fragrant.

You might be talking about parvis? Some delenatii, malipoense, and emorsonii are scented.

I don't think brachys are scented. are they??

[Aki_James]

Not Really too sure. I don't know too much about Paphs. When looking up culture for niveum I do remember quite a few websites listing it as fragrant including Orchids Limited list it as scented.

To be honest before reading that I didn't think any Paphs were fragrant.

[NYCorchidman]

Interesting.

I have four of them, none of them scented. Then again, four is really small sample size, isn't it?

Some could be scented I guess, but the named paphs above in the parvi group are known to be scented.