Quote Originally Posted by Dorsetman View Post
In-charm is a Taiwan Paph. specialist nursery . they have registered about a hundred crosses, all using their name as the first part of a compound name, such as P.In-charm Valwin ( which happens to be one I have). You could not name the plant from the picture.
It is one problem with buying feom auction sites , although not confined to them ( I could introduce you to a very good nursery in Italy, who have really excellent plants, at quite reasonable prices, but their names are a quite unreliable. Remember what our (UK) poet and playwright said " whats in a name, a rose would smell as sweet etc..."
Ahhh...well, that explains the confusion with the names. Thanks! I've only recently started getting hung up on names...ever since I started planning on doing some breeding (I'm still in the "planning" stages...LOL), it has seemed like a good idea to keep track of the names of anything I buy, just in case somewhere down the line I would want to use a plant to make a cross.

But you're right...the flower will be just as pretty even if it doesn't have the full name! Although it makes me wonder if the picture is accurate, seeing how this guy doesn't know the full name. The 'In-Charm' crosses have quite a range of appearances...I hope the photo is right! I might be in for quite a surprise... he he!

Ah, well...I shouldn't complain. I only paid $7 for it!

Oh, and I just found your thread with the photo of your In-Charm! Yours is gorgeous!! I love the raspberry color, and anything with a strong presence of niveum in it is gorgeous in my opinion. I love the whites! Yours looks like it's blushing! Beautiful!