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Mafate
April 21st, 2009, 04:35 PM
Hi all,

Here is a Cyp that I bought three years ago as a small plant and which is flowering for the first time. I bought it labelled C. calceolus and of course it is not. :mad: Do you think it is C. x ventricosum? Or something else? Thank you to let me know your opinion.

Best regards.

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/4756/c01mkj.jpg (http://img16.imageshack.us/my.php?image=c01mkj.jpg)

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/2677/c02qkv.jpg (http://img16.imageshack.us/my.php?image=c02qkv.jpg)

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/1011/c03x.jpg (http://img16.imageshack.us/my.php?image=c03x.jpg)

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/8945/c04m.jpg (http://img16.imageshack.us/my.php?image=c04m.jpg)

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/207/c05.jpg (http://img237.imageshack.us/my.php?image=c05.jpg)
Paphi
April 21st, 2009, 04:38 PM
very vey pretty:heart::heart::heart:
skipper
April 21st, 2009, 04:45 PM
I don't know what cyp it is but the flowers are beautiful. Very nice pictures.
jo7hs2
April 21st, 2009, 04:56 PM
It looks like it *could* be Cypripedium x ventricosum, and it does appear to have some calceolus in it, but I'm not terribly sure.
Tom S
April 21st, 2009, 05:42 PM
Beautiful plant!

Thanks for sharing!
Tom Velardi
April 21st, 2009, 05:57 PM
My vote goes for C. x ventricosum, and a nice deep colored one at that! If you look at the slightly elongated lip, the narrow staminode, and wavey petals and dorsal sepal, you can see the C. calceolus influence. That one should be a clumper as well, so keep it happy and you'll eventually have a stunning specimen....can you tell I'm a bit jealous?
Paphy57
April 21st, 2009, 07:24 PM
My vote goes for C. x ventricosum, and a nice deep colored one at that! If you look at the slightly elongated lip, the narrow staminode, and wavey petals and dorsal sepal, you can see the C. calceolus influence. That one should be a clumper as well, so keep it happy and you'll eventually have a stunning specimen....can you tell I'm a bit jealous?

:iagree: It is really a beauty!
Paphraguy
April 21st, 2009, 07:26 PM
Beautiful!
Slipperguy
April 22nd, 2009, 12:20 AM
Wow..fantastic plants...nice color!
orchidlover
April 22nd, 2009, 11:18 AM
Those flowers are just gorgeous!
newgrower
April 22nd, 2009, 01:06 PM
Too bad the plants aren't what it was labelled...
But nice colour!!!!
Paul B
April 22nd, 2009, 01:41 PM
Wow very nice color and plants!!!
dragonfly22
April 22nd, 2009, 03:57 PM
Great looking flowers! You did great!
Mafate
April 23rd, 2009, 02:36 PM
Hi all,

Thank you for your answers. It is true that its colour is stunning! :Party:

Tom, if you are so jealous, maybe I can send you a cutting in one year or two when it will be bigger. ;)

Regards.