Paph. callosum

[eggshells]

Originally Posted by CambriaWhat

Nominated for pic of the month in the Photography forum!

Thank you kind sir.

[NYCorchidman]

Beautiful coloration!

Is it still flat??

[eggshells]

Originally Posted by NYCorchidman

Beautiful coloration!

Is it still flat??

Relatively yes. However, it did some typical wavy callosum form on the dorsal.

[NYCorchidman]

That is why I was curious.

I have a beautiful callosum mixed with vini hybrid.
It opens up nicely, then the dorsal will go nuts in a few days. lol

The dorsal color is really nice on yours by the way!

[eggshells]

I hope you get a good one!

[NYCorchidman]

I'm getting a few parvis from them, but I really want to get some callosum as well.

Hopefully I will end up with one that is like yours. The better one, of course. lol

[Fairorchids]

From the barbatum group, callosum is definitely my favorite species.

I am currently growing 10-15 seedlings of Woodstream breeding (Penns Creek AM/AOS x self), but they are at least 2 years from blooming yet. In this group, there is some random variegation in the leaves.

I also have a couple of var thailandense seedlings, which are only a year from blooming size. In the literature, there is some debate as to whether this is a valid subspecies. It will be interesting to compare, once I have bloomed them all.

[NYCorchidman]

I don't have straight species, but two of my vini maudiae type hybrids involving callosum as one of their direct parents have slightly variegated leaves.
Flowers were ugly so I said bye bye. lol