Can anyone id this hybrid. Looks like much insigne to me, but the flower is bit bigger, 14-15 cm wide.

http://forum.theorchidsource.com/attachments/paphio9.gif

Howdy Jussi K,
Welcome to the best forum. I will refer you to a previous thread, it is very hard to identify a hybrid. We might be able to give some suggestions though... Here is the link to the previous thread: http://www.rainbowcomputers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=483[/url]

Howdy Jussi K,
Idid manage to find an old picture of mine from last year of my Mildred Hunter. (It is a complex hybrid, bulldog/ toad etc...)
http://community.webshots.com/photo/142030326/142030326FExLlo
I hope this works....

Thanks! It looks quite similar, maybe yours colors are bit more intense... How should I care this? Does it need cold period to flower?

Oh you want it to bloom again? Usually the rule is a cooler break and less water in the winter time. Probably 55-65 degrees, still water, not quite as heavy as summer watering.

Welcome to the forum!

Can't help you with IDing your Paph but that is a very nice photo of a lovely flower!

I agree on the nice flower

Don't know how helpful I can be having become paph manic in just the last four years or so. For mine your flower looks like one of the early complex hybrids - I've been looking through some books and web sites without much luck -

It does have elements of insigne. I also see spicerianum and villosum.

Anybody else got clues.

Cheers
Stephan

nice plant i also see villosum

welcome to the forum :-dance:

I'm sure a few of the members here will be able to get you in the ball park on the id of this plant

Very pretty flower.

Impossible to tell... It has villosum (and/or boxalii) in it, and some insigne. But that isn't at all unusual, those would be in the background of any 'complex' paph of that type.

If I had to guess, I'd say it was a fairly simple hybrid. It is close to the species. I don't think it is a primary hybrid (villosum x insigne), but it is probably pretty close. If it were of modern breeding, I'd expect it to have substantially wider petals. This is probably a division of a cross that is at least 50 years old, maybe more.