Quote Originally Posted by Dorsetman View Post
Number 5 is not Paph villosum , it is not even a paph - its a Phrag - a hybrid, I can have a stab at the grex, but something like a schlimii cross I'd guess - Cardinale is the only one IO know really well, and it could be that.

The next one down - the paph in bud - that could be villosum or any one of a dozen other species too......
Not my i.d. this time - on no. 5, that is. The only phrags I can really recognize are the besseaes, and even then, I couldn't tell a species from a hybrid when there are so many that, to me, look essentially the same. Is there an obvious way to tell a paph from a phrag just by looking at it? I'm quite taken with the several phrags now blooming at the Conservatory - not to grow myself, but to enjoy when I see them.