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Old 01-22-2017, 02:04 PM
orchidsarefun orchidsarefun is offline
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I got this from a widow and the plant - according to her at the time - is at least 50 years old. ( btw, this was 4 years ago )
This may be a red herring but she told me her husband got it in China, sold to him by someone on the side of the road when they were missionaries.
It looks as if it may be a sequential paph too. Flower is smallish. I had a look on paphs.net and didn't find anything that resembles this.
Stem is clipped as not strong enough to hold the bloom upright.
Any ideas ?


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Old 01-22-2017, 03:53 PM
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First impression, it is a hybrid of a sequential flowering Paph (probably Paph primulinum) with another type, probably a Paph insigne based complex hybrid. Paph primulinum wasn't described until 1973, and none of the sequential flowering Paphs are native to China. A Chinese origin 50+ years ago seems unlikely.

Since it does appear to be a hybrid a definite ID is unlikely, but another picture when the flower is fully open, with size measurement, and a clear picture of the whole plant might help confirm or narrow it down.
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