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12-26-2016, 12:19 AM
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Paphiopedilum Alpine 'Grande' X praestans
Here is a reliable bloomer. Easy to grow, deep shade, keep moist, intermediate temps. Love the mottled leaves.
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12-26-2016, 10:21 AM
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Oh my. That's fantastic. Unusual cross, I think it turned out well.
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12-26-2016, 09:35 PM
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Wonderful!
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12-27-2016, 07:41 AM
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Very striking...I think it's the pouch (but overall great)
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12-27-2016, 10:18 AM
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Interesting flower. Trying to figure out what this is. Paph Alpine Grande isn't a registered cross. Paph Alpine 'Grande'? I'm not sure that could account for mottled leaves.
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12-27-2016, 12:34 PM
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Went back and looked at original tag. It is Paph. Alpine 'Grande' X praestans. Sorry about that, hope that helps. We got it from the estate sale of Chifford and Vivion Walters (VICLI Orchids in Kansas City) in a group of paphs and phals. It was very small and took a few years to bloom, but since then it has bloomed every year. It has bloomed more than once a year before. It does have mottled leaves, a light green leaf with a darker green alligator pattern. I think you can see it in picture under flowers. I hope this helps, I could not find much on this cross, just paph. praestans.
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12-27-2016, 08:14 PM
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Paph Alpine is a fairly typical bulldog registered in 1980, a blocky flower that looks like an amped up Paph insigne color-wise in the one picture I have seen (in OrchidWiz). There's nothing about it that explains where mottled leaves in this cross would come from, and this doesn't look like a half bulldog flower. I would have to doubt that being a correct identification.
I don't have a specific alternative to propose, but it seems both the flowers and leaves suggest a section Barbata hybrid as a parent rather than a bulldog.
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12-28-2016, 02:13 AM
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Thanks, PaphMadMan. This would not surprise me, as many of the plants, from that group where miss labaled. I think they threw a bunch of plants in box, and did not care if correct tags where there. This is why I don't like to buy lots at auctions any more. Learning my lesson. Now I should move this to 'can anyone identify this paph.' Thanks agian
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