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Paphiopedilum esquirolei 'MC3032' × 'JB'
 
 
 
 
Number: TN6580
Name: Paphiopedilum esquirolei 'MC3032' × 'JB'
Type: outcross    (What's that?)
Seed Donor: Richard Lockwood  (Email: rlockwood@ramboll.com)
 
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Pod Parent Flower
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Offspring 'MC7197' Flower
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Offspring 'MC7197' Closeup of Flower
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Offspring 'MC7197' Flower just after Opening
Offspring photos are siblings of the plants you would receive.
 
 
Culture Notes from Donor: Pod parent plant: Temperature range CI (58-75°F). Prefers a cooler, shadier place in the greenhouse. Frequently produces new plant sections. Likes oyster shell in the potting mix.
 
Comments: Pod parent plant: Flowering cycle is very long. Produces sheaths in summer to fall. Spikes emerge in spring. Seems to need many plant sections in the pot (10 or more) before blooming. Medium-sized plant.
 
For additional origin/habitat information supplied courtesy of Charles and Margaret Baker, see further below, near the bottom of this page.

Temperatures we attempt to use in the lab & greenhouse:
For Species:   Spring, Summer, Autumn: days average 77°F, nights 62°F; best fit is Cool-Intermediate 75-58°F (Source: Baker's Web OSC)
For Species:   Winter: days average 73°F, nights 42°F; best fit is Cool-Cold 64-44°F (Source: Baker's Web OSC)

About the name...
Etymology of esquirolei   Named for Esquirol, English orchid collector in the 1st half of the 20th century. (Source: Mayr & Schmucker 1998)
Etymology of Paphiopedilum   From Greek "Paphia" the name of Aphrodite of Cypress; "pedilon", sandal. (Source: Pridgeon 1992)
Pronunciation of Paphiopedilum   paf-ee-oh-PED-i-lum (Source: Pridgeon 1992)
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Flask Information
Availability: We have sold all of the flasks for this item.
You should: Consider getting individual plants or compots instead of a flask.
You can place a "Notify Flask Recipients" Request, and either we or a flask recipient may contact you when plants are available.

You may also place a "Notify Retries" Request, and if an identical pollination (the same parents) is done again, we'll let you know.

You may reserve a flask, but it's very unlikely you'll get one ...this could only happen if we found a flask that we didn't know we had.
Yield Estimate: 656 plants (based on flask surveys done 05/26/2009 through 11/11/2009)
Yield estimates are only approximate, but may appear to be fairly exact numbers because they are a combination of large rough estimates in remaining mother flasks and more accurate small estimates in reflasks.
Plantlet Sizes: From many flasks 15 - 70 mm plants (based on flask surveys done 11/09/2009 through 08/09/2010)
From one most recently surveyed flask 30 - 60 mm (08/09/2010)
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The origin/habitat information below is supplied courtesy of Charles and Margaret Baker

The following information is based on the name of the plant provided by the donor, and assumes that the name is correct. If the plant has been misidentified, then the following information may not be correct.
This text is copyrighted by the Bakers and may not be reproduced without permission.

ORIGIN/HABITAT: Southwest China in Guizhou, Yunnan, and Guangxi provinces southward into northern Thailand. Most of the plants in cultivation labeled as Paphiopedilum esquirolei originated in Thailand, however. Plants are found at 3950-5900 ft. (1200-1800 m.). The late Dr. Fowlie (1990) reported that in extreme northwestern Guangxi Province of southwest China, these plants are often found in the shade of trees on northeast-facing benches on steep slopes above the openings of limestone caves where they are bathed in moist air coming from the caves. They have usually sprouted on lichen encased saplings or tree roots and then sent their roots through a layer of fallen forest humus and leaf mold to attach to underlying limestone. Plants were sometimes even rooted in the black, clay-filled soil. In Vietnam, this lithophytic orchid has been found in the northeastern province of Cao Bang where it grows on vertical cliffs in mossy, primary and secondary forests of evergreen and semideciduous trees at 1150-2950 ft. (350-900 m).
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