I have gone into the lab to find that my Paphiopedilum orchid has bloomed. I’m pretty sure this is not a hybrid, but a real, naturally-occurring species; sadly, I forgot the species name, but I’m sure Lou Jost or someone else will tell me, and perhaps give a bit of information about the flower:
Once a year I get this flower, which lasts for about ten days. Lovely, ain’t it?
Yes, it is lovely.
“Therefore god”?
That’s a bit deist of you. “Ergo Jesus” is intuitively obviously correct.
It is indeed lovely, but I can’t help noticing the form is a lot like that of Pete Puma…
lovely, yes, but IT”S A TRAP!!!
I have one that looks the same, foliage, blossom colour & all. The grower tag says it’s a Maudia (sp?) of some sort.
oh, and mine usually last at least a month! Bonus.
Mmm, looks like a Cualdus scrotumia.
Dang it, I googled that and came up with ‘cold scrotum’.
Excellent trolling, then!
Nee hee!
That looks like Paph. sukhakulii, a wonderful species!! Here is a photo and some info about it:
ww.orchidweb.com/orchidofweek.aspx?id=385
Orchids are a great cure for excess theology-reading.
Where from then (see my comment below) please Lou?
Ah, Thailand… thanks.
It’s Paph. sukhakulii. Mine is also blooming.
Beautiful
OK Jerry – so where does it come from, where does it like to live and what pollinates it (bees?), and why don’t you try pollinating it yourself to see if you can get seeds? Do a Darwin!
http://darwin-online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/Freeman_FertilisationofOrchids.html
I guess that makes you a Paphiopediphile.
+1 from an orchidophile.
Nero Wolfe gave it a “very satisfactory.”
Feed me, Seymore!
Flower? That’s Jar Jar Binks!
I think I have the same, if I remember correctly since my two Paphs haven’t bloomed for quite some time now.
Nature certainly isn’t a minimalist! Gorgeous.
Can’t beat paphs!
Love the mottled foliage of this sp as well.
PS: I, too, prefer sp orchids to hybrids. Manmade hybrids, that is.