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Ernie
June 26th, 2005, 01:06 PM
Okay, I read the article on the oyster shells and that caused me to look up the parentage of my babies a bit closer. The maudiae types are enough to drive anyone nuts but this one in particular has me totally confused and maybe you guys can offer some guidance.

The tagged paph in question reads P. Macabre x P. Shadow Magic x P. Red Maude (without parentheses) which left me scratching a bit just from the boggle of imaging a plant 3-some. I went to the RHS Registry site and did some grex research on the thing using almost every combination of the three names.

The only one I found was P. Macabre x P. Red Maude registered in 1998 as P. Nightspot. Logically, I would assume if the tag printers weren't ignorant, this is an unnamed grex of P. Macabre x P. Shadow Magic that was subsequently crossed with a P. Red Maude. I was able to trace all the parentages back to species but now I'm stuck with a naming issue I think.

Just for gee whiz factor...this maudiae hybrid can trace it's lineage back to P. sukhakuli x P. goultenianum x P. lawrencianum x P. mastersianum x P. callosum so it's a REAL mutt!

paphreek
June 26th, 2005, 02:00 PM
"Just for gee whiz factor...this maudiae hybrid can trace it's lineage back to P. sukhakuli x P. goultenianum x P. lawrencianum x P. mastersianum x P. callosum so it's a REAL mutt! "

It's really not a mutt because you know its lineage! But in that same vein, try tracing the lineage of Paph. Western Thunder! :twisted:

Ernie
June 26th, 2005, 02:35 PM
Umm, no...I don't own it. :Party:

Stephan
June 27th, 2005, 02:16 AM
I've got a few plants like that (One's a Paph). The cross you have may well have been created by a "hobbyist" and the seedlings passed on to another who wasn't all that finicky about labelling :-)

If you lucky you know how to get in touch with the person who created it and get a handle on how the plant was created.

One plus - each of the component plants is registered - so you know they existed :-)

Cheers
Stephan

TADD
June 27th, 2005, 07:41 AM
I agree with Paphreek, the lineage on some of these newer complexes and novelties is enough to blow your gasket. Ernie I do not know what to tell you on the labeling of this plant. Seems odd that the three parents are labeled like that. It would be alot easier if it had parenthesis :poke: