As I received the clear results about crossings between Cypripedium
and Paphiopedilum, I 'll show you the information here. This
information by Dr. Holger Parner who is a botanical sientist
in Germany and who live in China now in order to research about
Orchids in China. The followings is the partial letter from him
in China.
There is something growing in a pot on my balcony here in Chengdu,
that might interest you: Prof. Fangyuan Liu, Kunming, made this
cross. It is Paphiopedilum armeniacum x Cypripedium henryi. The
plants look a lot like Paph. armeniacum, but they are not just
selfings induced by pollen of the cypripedium. The plants are
not deciduous and have obviously mostly
paphiopedilum-blood. But they are different form pure armeniacums:
the leaves are a little softer, brighter green and only very
sparsely dotted with red at the very base of the leaves underside.
I hope I can grow them to flowering size ( I have just a very
few of them), and also hope that they are able to flower at all.
( Thank you Holger.. )
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