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| In the photo ( right ), we can not see only the part of lady who are holding plant. But we can identify how big of the plant anf flower easily, can't you ? |
| This new speceis Paph. anitum has been discovered from the stream , south of Sungao, Mindanao Island, Philippine. The type specimine has discovered about 800 m from the sea level. This species is very similatr to Paph. adductum, don't you think so ? The people around the mountains know this species as Black Orchids. In truth, this species distribute from 220 m to 1000m hight. And thr plants arenot so rare and distibute as a planty of plants. This report was bay mr. A.S.Golamco Jr on Waiting Waiting Review. The upper left photo is Paph. anitum's flowerrs on stem. It will be very huge plant and flowers identified from the photo of the plant with a lady , upper light photo. |
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| Location Altitude Humidity Blooming Plant height leaf color leaf length leaf width inflorescence flower color Dosal sepal |
Eastern Mindanao 220~1000m 80~100%,very shady April to Sept. 30~75cm deep blue green daeker tessellation up to 75cm 4~10cm 75~150cm,2~7 flowers yellow green or yellow orange striped with black or black mahogany 3/4th black over yellow reen base |
Northern Mindanao 1250~1350m 75~80%,medium bright whole year 10~30cm green with tessellation 30cm 3~6cm 25~40cm,2~4 flowers yellow cream with reddish maroon cream striped with maroon |
| ON the original paper, various kinds of descriptions about flowers in detail. But in this site, I'll omit of them. |
| It is very difficult to identify Paph. anitum from Paph. adductum. Do you know the somilar case about paph. adductum. About 10 or 15 years before, paph. adductum we know was very compact with shorter and grayish green leaves. We could see the floweres up to t flowers. But in these days, Paph. adductum has very huge plant with 50 ~ 75 cm length yellow green leaves. And their flowers will be over 3. There are a big difference. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to find out the former plants in our green house. I guess they will be Paph. adductum exactly, but they might be the different variety. Like this situation, there are no suspicious matter that there are somilar but different variety will be found in nature. From the same stand points, I guess this plant will be the another variety of Paph. adductum. Or it must be the new species exactly ? |
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