UFO Paph orchid identification help

[TwoStems]

Can anyone help on an ID? The grower never got back to me. It may be a complex hybrid, but I'd at least like to know that much
Thanks in advance!

[TwoStems]

Spoke too soon!! Just checked my email after posting this and got an answer! The parents are: Paph. Jolly Green Gem X (Royal Flush x Amarillo), I don't know if that means this hasn't been named or what...but it's nice to know the parentage

[mauraec]

Hi, Ali - yes, that's a complex paph, and when I have a minute, I'll Owiz it for you and get back to you with the specifics, okay?

[TwoStems]

Knowing the parents is helpful I looked up owiz and holy cow it's expensive!!

[Cjcorner]

It is very pretty. I love the bright yellow color...very sunny!

[zainal abidin]

Yes nice complex hybrids Ali.

[mauraec]

Hi Ali - I researched your paph on OWiz and found out that the second hybrid still isn't registered, so your tag is correct as it is. I wish I knew how to attach an OWiz page through my mac onto OT, but I don't - what I can tell you is that the majority of this paph is Paph. insigne, with a lot of spicerianum as the secondary influence. It also has some villosum and some boxalii. The actual genealogy of all the parents in you paph goes back generations - more than 6, at least, before it reaches the species. None of the three parents show yellow - mostly green and a dusty rosish color - so it's interesting that you picked up such a clear yellow version - many possible reasons for that, but I can't name them all. Hope this helps, at least for the sake of curiosity! It's always fun for me.

[Dorsetman]

Does orchidwiz work with Mac ? I thought I had read somewhere that it doesn't - or am I confusing something about Wildcatt ?
I am interested as I now have an iPad (how did I ever do without ? ) so I am perforce using Mac. But I have not attempted to put Orchidwiz on it - not that t would be simple anyway, even if possible.

[mauraec]

Does orchidwiz work with Mac ? I thought I had read somewhere that it doesn't - or am I confusing something about Wildcatt ?
I am interested as I now have an iPad (how did I ever do without ? ) so I am perforce using Mac. But I have not attempted to put Orchidwiz on it - not that t would be simple anyway, even if possible.

Aaahhh - an excellent question. The short answer is yes, one can use OrchidWiz on a Mac. How one accomplishes that is a tad more complex. I have a Macbook Pro, and went through the following steps to get OWiz up and running on it. 1) I bought and installed a software program called "Parallels", which "created" a second "virtual machine" (like having another computer running on it) on my Mac. (I downloaded the program from the internet site.) 2) I then bought and installed Windows 7 on that "virtual machine". 3) I then bought and installed Orchidwiz on Windows 7. So, now I have one piece of hardware - namely, the Macbook, but essentially two computers - a Mac and a pc. The pc part can run programs that, for now, anyway, only run on Windows. See - not so easy and not so cheap, but entirely possible!

[TwoStems]

Thanks for the info Maura! Definitely fulfilled some of my curiosity It's interesting to know that the yellow is odd for this mix. I did try googling the parents to see what they look like and I also found majorly green flowers, and some white. Thanks again!!
Posted via Mobile Device