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Paphiopedilum gratrixianum 'Olympic' × 'Foster'
 
 
 
 
Number: TN6900
Name: Paphiopedilum gratrixianum 'Olympic' × 'Foster'
Type: outcross    (What's that?)
Seed Donor: Ellen Covey, Olympic Orchids  (Email: olympicorchids@gmail.com)
 
Donor's home page: https://olympicorchids.com
 
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Pod Parent Flower
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Pollen Parent Flower
 
 
Culture Notes from Donor: Parent plants: Temperature range I (60-83°F)
 
Comments: Pod parent plant: Good form with nice wide petals and lots of spotting. One of the offspring from our TN3902 attempt of 2003, grown by Ellen Covey. Medium-sized plant.

Pollen parent plant: 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 76°F, nights 63°F; best fit is Cool-Intermediate 75-58°F (Source: Baker's Web OSC)
For Species:   Winter: days average 77°F, nights 55°F; best fit is Cool-Intermediate 75-58°F (Source: Baker's Web OSC)

About the name...
Etymology of gratrixianum   Named for Mr. S. Gratrix of Manchester, England. (Source: Braem & Bakers)
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: 804 plants (based on flask surveys done 06/09/2010 through 10/29/2013)
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 0.3 - 75 mm plants (based on flask surveys done 02/24/2010 through 01/23/2012)
From one most recently surveyed flask 30 - 70 mm (01/23/2012)
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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: Laos and Vietnam. Plants were reportedly found near Pak Song, Laos, not far west of the border with central Vietnam and have been found in Thai Nguyen Province in Vietnam where they were growing in wet evergreen cloudforest for vertical bluffs of granite and other lime-free rocks at about 3300 ft. (1000 m).
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