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Old 14-06-2003, 02:08 PM
Michael Gerzog
 
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Default PAPHIOPEDILUM VIETNAMENSE

Steve wrote in message ...
Funny thing about that web site....
http://home.ica.net/~birch/paphs.htm
8th plant down the list:
Paph. Delrosi - rothschildianum 'Charlesbourg' X delenatii (vietnamese)

They can't decide if they used Paph. Delrosi or vietnamese?

Paph. vietnamense is the species... a little snooping on the web seems
to indicate there is a Paph. delanatii 'vietnamese'. Really?

Steve


Yes, really. It's a (relatively) recently discovered larger, darker
form than the plants that were all the descendants of the few plants
first discovered by Westerners in, IIRC, the early 20th Century.

It "should" be illegal in the US under the USFWS interpretation of
CITES, but they apparently recognized the impossibility of
distinguishing them from the "legal" ones and gave up on that one. It
is usually indicated the way the original listing had it, with
parentheses, not your single quotes which are used for clonal/cultivar
names and would indicate that they're all divisions of the one
original plant (which they're not).

Michael