I got this Phragmipedium lindleyanum var. kaieteurum 'War Eagle' x self from Marilyn LeDoux of Windy Hill Gardens . I love buying plants from Marilyn because she is super-duper nice and helpful! Her plants are amazingly healthy, too. Its parent 'War Eagle' is from Tom Larkin of Whippoorwill Orchids, who passed away in September 2013. Marilyn didn't know where Tom got his plant from. Although the flower is fairly small (dorsal sepal length is 3cm, petal length is 4cm), I think that it has pretty color with lots of red. According to PhragWeb , this variety has spots on the corner of the lip-opening (and P. lindleyanum doesn't have it). I'm guessing this is the reddish spots over yellowish background on the front side of the opening, which can be seen in the photo above (the area is a little out of focus). There are 3 varieties in P. lindleyanum ; var. lindelyanum with the widest distribution, var. kaiteurum , and var. sargentianum with a disj...
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