Orchid Friends in JAPAN (NO.3) |
（3）Mr. Hiroshi Nakatsuka |
| Ohdo, Ibaraki-Machi, Higashi Ibaraki-Gun,Ibaraki-Ken Mito Gareden Orchid Association Experience of growing orchids : ５ years Wardean Case e-mail：h.nakatsuka@asahi-net.email.ne.jp HP: My Orchids |
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Paph. chamberlainianum |
| Mix compost in plastic pot. LS:50cm。Min. temp is １３℃ in winter. This plant has flowers whole year because new buds oppen one by one. |
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Paph. kolopakingii |
| LS:130cm. Min. Temperature is 18 ℃. It takes 3 years to open flower after getting this plant. 8 flowers on one stem. I have surprised so big. |
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Paph. purpuratum |
| LS:24cm. This plant is growing in sphagnam moss in selamic pot. I don't grow this plant in greenhouse but in living room. It has 2 flowers every year. I love it's dosal sepol warped behind. |
I'll invite you to The Paphs Show of The Tokugawa that is open in Mito Botanical Gardens |
| Only 2 paphs were exhibited by the Tokugawa. Both are nice white Paphs and I was fascinated by the beauty. And the phtoes that were registrated to RHS by the Tokugawa. In this show , a lot of Paphs were exhibited and filled the hall by Mochizuki Orchids Nursery and Mukougaoka play land. |
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Paph. Meadow Sweet Pulity AM/RHS＆GMMIn 1957, this plant was registrated. This flower is the ideal shape that baron Kuniaki Tokugawa bilieved. |
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Paph. Mayumi 'Tokugawa'
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(4) Mr. Tomohiro Minami , 29 years old |
| 4945-13 hosoyamada, kushira-cho,kannzoku-Gun, Kagoshima-Ken Experience of growing orchids : 8 years Experience of growing Paphs : 8 years E-mail；minami@os-kaes.pref.kagoshima.jp |
| I have studyed cell culture of Phalenopsis when I was a student, 4 or 5 years before. In my lab, I have a friend who grow Paphiopedilu and I was going to be interested in Paph. I 'm growing this plant, Paph. concolor for 8 years. This is the first Paph that I have bought in gardening center when I was a student. |
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Paph.concolor |
| ＮＳ；5.6×6.6、ＤＳ；3.8×3.4、ＬＳ2.3×2.9、Ｐ；3.3×4.8、Ｌ；4.2×1.6cm. NS is not so huge because the petal developing forward. The high of plant is ７cm and the length of stem is ３cm. I fell it is not so big compareing to Paph. concolor in China, although I have seen it in Photo only. But I love this plant because I 'm growing for so long . This plant make me to begin growing Paph. But I don't have so much money and I can not buy enough. So I buy young plants like seedling that are inexpensive. It will take about 4 or 5 years to flower. And I grow them in 4 m2 grennhouse of plastic film. In the green house, there are about 50 plants in 1 or 2 inch pot. Now I'm very interested in Brachypetalum and Pervisepalum species and their hybrids. |
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