Paph (hybrid?) NOID

[TwoTon]

Currently gracing my desk. No idea what it could be. (some makuli in there?) HELP! THANKS!

[Ennui]

Sorry no help on the ID,
but I'm interested in hearing what anybody can suggest to which it's similar.
I love that red, and the pointy pouch shape.
I especially like the black warts coalescing into black tipped petals.
it looks deadly serious,
you're lucky,
it's a very handsome NoID.

[bench72]

I'm with Ennui on that very kewl pointed lip... and the colour... they musta been breeding this one for those vinicolours... funny, the dorsal reminds me of charlesworthii...

well, I bet I've confused the whole thing even more now so I will just shut up now until the brains gets to this one....

Cheers
Tim

[Diane]

That pouch makes me think there is some sukhakulii in there somewhere?

[Jmoney]

unfortunately, it won't be possible to identify it--there are a zillion hybrids that it could be. nice color though.

[LJA]

lol!

Ennui, it sure does look deadly serious. Two-ton, definitely a hybrid, but as Jason said, identification is going to be next to impossible. Very cool flower, just grow and enjoy!

[TwoTon]

Many thanks all of you! In fact, despite my Germanic heritage, I'm getting more and more used to the fact that I won't ever be able to ID many of my flowers, so to H-E-Double Hockeysticks with that. In fact, I bought two paphs - one in bloom, one budding - this morning for a total of five bucks, and when I took them out of the bag at home, I beheaded the one with the bloom. It was a lovely pinkish-white....

Achoy, such is life, I guess. Meanwhile, my garagetop rainforest was completed last wekend, so I put up a bunch of pix here:

http://www.albumtown.com/showlist.ph...43&dowhat=user

(Those with no stomach for carnivorous plants may go straight to the orchid folder ;-) My current favorite is the Ascocenda with the enormous roots....

Enjoy, cheers and thanks again!

Hans

[Diane]

Boy. I'm jealous. If I'd tried to put up something on my garage roof the city, county and probably state would all be after me for a zillion code violations... BTW I love the hat! And don't knock that German heritage.. as a typical American, I'm a wild mixture - but at least 1/4 German/Prussian. (depending on the time in history) And I know what at least 80% of my plants are! LOL The most important thing is to enjoy them! And stop making me miserable bragging about those cheap prices!

[TwoTon]

80 percent! Now _you_ are making me miserable, Diane. So far, only one vendor of any of my thirtysomething orchids was able to provide me with a proper scientific name. For all the other flowers, I had to google and ask in forums til my eyes bled...

The hat isn't mine, by the way. In fact, even the guy below the hat isn't me, but rather a friend and fellow plant junkie. Also 100% German, as you can see from his stern mien :-)

Saturday is Taipei Weekend Flower Market time again. I plan to empty my wallet into the tills of various orchid and carnivore sellers there, then come home with that insane, ear-to-ear, just-spent-a-hunnerd-bucks-on-plants-and-I'm-in-heaven grin.

I'll keep y'all posted!

cheers

Hans

[TwoTon]

Well...today was Weekend Flower Market Day, and as threatened earlier, I came, saw and went bananas! Here's today's loot:

http://www.albumtown.com/showalbum.p...d=35854&page=2
(pages 2 and 3)

Only four NOIDs out of eight (d. parishii and d. linawianum aren't currently in flower, hence no pics, and the brown phals were too expensive, so I didn't bring them home), not too bad a quota!

Enjoy, and if anyone knows anything about them there NOIDs, please do comment....

cheerio!

Hans