Paphiopedilum rothschildianum

[zainal abidin]

Last moth I went to one of the nursery in Cameron Highland to my surprise I saw a lot of P roth in blooms with different character and shape of the wing I was shock for a while and slowly took a photos. Some of them the pouch really so red like a pepper but the character is not that great.You can see the photos below.

[zainal abidin]

Out of 8 plants in bloomed I choose one for the flat wing with the diameter 29 cm from Right to Left. I like it so much.

[JDT]

A good pick Zain, beautiful!

[Chris in Hamilton]

Very nice! A plant like the one you chose would be expensive here.

[Sheryl]

I like it very much too Zain!

[Brutal_Dreamer]

Stunning!!

Cheers,
BD

[CattyRobb]

Wings is right. It looks like they're flying. Love it!

[raybark]

You definitely selected a good one.

[Dorsetman]

I don't grow paphs seriously now , although I held ( owned and grew) the UK National Collection for many years up to about '05. At that time , the best 'roths in UK ( and as far as i know in the world) were two FCC varieties - one was 'Commander\; , and I forget the other. They had flowers up to about 25cm. Of course they can be grown better and no doubt bigger in your part of the world Zain, and times have moved on , but 29cm is still wonderful growing.
but what about flower count ? The best I ever achieved was 5 , but the top growers like Eric Young Foundation occasionally got 6.
But what an acquisition - it would certainly sell for say US$500 or more in Uk ( but not to me.... )

[zainal abidin]

A good pick Zain, beautiful!

I agree with you Jack thanks.

---------- Post Merged at 02:52 PM ----------

Very nice! A plant like the one you chose would be expensive here.

Same thing here as the presentation is abnormal but amazing thanks Chris.

---------- Post Merged at 02:53 PM ----------

I like it very much too Zain!

I'm glad that you like it thanks Sheryl.

---------- Post Merged at 02:55 PM ----------

Stunning!!

Cheers,
BD

Thanks Bruce my friend is willing to give me another fan with the wing span from R to L is one foot right now still very small.

---------- Post Merged at 02:57 PM ----------

Wings is right. It looks like they're flying. Love it!

Yup Robb and here they called this orchid as Sumazau dance as it's a traditonal dance for the Kadazan Dusun in Sabah.

---------- Post Merged at 02:58 PM ----------

You definitely selected a good one.

Ray thanks to my friend whom suggested me to get the above clone as its very rare.

---------- Post Merged at 02:59 PM ----------

I don't grow paphs seriously now , although I held ( owned and grew) the UK National Collection for many years up to about '05. At that time , the best 'roths in UK ( and as far as i know in the world) were two FCC varieties - one was 'Commander\; , and I forget the other. They had flowers up to about 25cm. Of course they can be grown better and no doubt bigger in your part of the world Zain, and times have moved on , but 29cm is still wonderful growing.
but what about flower count ? The best I ever achieved was 5 , but the top growers like Eric Young Foundation occasionally got 6.
But what an acquisition - it would certainly sell for say US$500 or more in Uk ( but not to me.... )

Wow that was too expensive USD$500, here I managed to get about 70 USD only maybe my luck I knew all the times the petals pointing downward but this one is considered very rare I have few clones none is behaving flat wings.