ugly orchids!

[Wrebbitrocks]

PAPHS are UGLY!!! but it is the same reason that i like them so much, theyre so ugly and disgusting it amazes me that such things were created out in the wild. i thought it was funny whenever my mom sees my paph blooms. the first time she said "EW what is THAT?!?! it looks like a gynecologist's worst nightmare!!! 0.o" i laughed so hard. the rest of the people who see them the first time dont believe theyre real and usually say that theyre aliens or sumn. the ones i dont like much are the boring little bog orchids that dot the landscape lookng like loose clusters of snapdragons. also, anything OVERLY magenta/ bright purple are no-no's. although i did buy a mini magenta phal and it looks nice amongst other colors to mute down its overly powerful color.

[gnathaniel]

Originally Posted by Wrebbitrocks

PAPHS are UGLY!!! but it is the same reason that i like them so much, theyre so ugly and disgusting it amazes me that such things were created out in the wild. i thought it was funny whenever my mom sees my paph blooms. the first time she said "EW what is THAT?!?! it looks like a gynecologist's worst nightmare!!! 0.o" i laughed so hard. the rest of the people who see them the first time dont believe theyre real and usually say that theyre aliens or sumn.

Can't say as how Paphs ever exactly reminded me of female anatomy...

When I was a kid (my dad started taking me to orchid society meetings when I was 8 or 9) I always giggled about all the adults fawning over Paphs and Phrags that often, to my childish eyes, looked like a bunch of scrotums (or is that scrota?) on flower spikes. I still crack up a little (inside, at least) at OS meetings when someone brings out a Paph with a particularly veiny-looking pouch.

I sincerely hope I haven't offended anyone too much by recounting the above tale of a childhood observation...

--Nat

[Wrebbitrocks]

Originally Posted by gnathaniel

Can't say as how Paphs ever exactly reminded me of female anatomy...

When I was a kid (my dad started taking me to orchid society meetings when I was 8 or 9) I always giggled about all the adults fawning over Paphs and Phrags that often, to my childish eyes, looked like a bunch of scrotums (or is that scrota?) on flower spikes. I still crack up a little (inside, at least) at OS meetings when someone brings out a Paph with a particularly veiny-looking pouch.

I sincerely hope I haven't offended anyone too much by recounting the above tale of a childhood observation...

--Nat

LMFAO *KNEE SLAPPER* she says its the inside part thats folded in right beneath the pollen. but yes your observation seems to fit the bill also. I personally dont find it offensive and im sorry if anyone does but it IS funny my mahja also says that the warts on the petals look like a google search of "syphilis"

[Orchidflowerchild]

Originally Posted by Wrebbitrocks

LMFAO *KNEE SLAPPER* she says its the inside part thats folded in right beneath the pollen. but yes your observation seems to fit the bill also. I personally dont find it offensive and im sorry if anyone does but it IS funny my mahja also says that the warts on the petals look like a google search of "syphilis"

I *STILL* think Paph venustum looks like a disease of the nethers. Still like it, though.