Showing posts with label Paphiopedilum delenatii. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 15, 2011

Paphiopedilum delenatii update

Old fan on Paph delenatii got so unattractively brownish-yellow, that I decided to cut it off. The cut is quite visible in front of the newer fan that is producing new leaf:



While fussing around it, my curious mind wanted to see what is going on in the pot under the chc surface. Without much thinking I pulled the plant out of the pot and was thrilled to discover two gorgeous new fuzzy roots growing out of the rotted/dried roots mess I saw last time.
Giant piece of chc stuck to them, I didn't want to disturb the roots and didn't take it off for the pictures:



View from the side:



Looks like couple of my paphs decided to give me a second chance :).

After some reading and going through the google images, it turned out that I really like the paphs of parvisepalum type (which explains why beside delenatii I have also micranthum and emersonii). There are few other parvisepalum species and primary hybrids I would like to add to my collection soon.