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Old 03-06-2007, 09:02 PM
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Dear soltrad,

Are all 20 of your Paphs wentworthianum? Also, are they mature plants or seedlings?

If they are mature plants and some had mottled leaves while others has solid green, I'd suspect that the green leaved ones weren't wentworthianum and were mistagged. the only wat to confirm would be to bloom them.

Some variation can occur in the leaf patterns of mottled leafed Paphs, but the degree of variation is less pronounced in species than in hybrids. Hybrids have a larger gene pool and therefore more variation.

I've read nothing specifically on mottling variation in the leaves of wentworthianum. Any taxonomists out there?

-Kevin
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