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Subject: [OGD] Tissue cultured paphs etc From: ROY LEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:14:33 +1100 (EST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paphs are one of the few orchids left that requires TIME to obtain that piece of something special. Everything else is almost an overnite wait.
Lets hope that full on tissue culture of them never succeeds.
Lets leave something sacred.
ROY
I have to disagree here. The most beautiful Paph. I have ever seen, Paph. Castle Rising 'Superbum', may be gone from the world exactly because we haven't achieved successful cloning of paphs. It was owned by Penn Valley, and when I last spoke to Dr.Wilson, he said he 'thought' Klehm's got the plant when he sold out. And as we all know, most of the plants Klehm's got from Penn Valley were killed in their unfortunate catastrophe. I hjave asked about it numerous times at Klehm's and have never gotten a satisfactory answer as to its disposition, and therefore assume it is gone. I have been searching for it ever since. When I had spoken to Dr.Wilson just six months before (when he promised me if he ever decided to sell it, I would get the first option to purchase it - how I wish he had kept that promise!), he said the plant had always been a slow grower, just one growth usually, occasionally two. He didn't think it had ever produced a division, though he did say his memory wasn't as good as it used to be and that maybe, just maybe, somewhere along the line it had. It was a lovely, unique flower the likes of which I have never seen again, and in all probability is now gone from history. Tragic and unfortunate, and only one example. I, as many orchidists, am very specific in my tastes in plants, and I can tell you the list of paphiopedilum grexes of which I find only one member desirable, is quite long.
That is why we need this work to go forward.
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