Paph. bellatulum fma album

先兩日落雨, 花瓣有少少瑕疵

Paph. bellatulum fma album

嘩, 白得好似玉咁呀~~ 好令呀~~

清純的美人

Quite a good clone!~ I am hoping mine to set a flower bud in the coming weeks

人地果棵開得仲靚

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How about the dimension? Is it over 6-7 cm across?

Not necessarily. It could be due just to clonal variations. I've seen colored bellatulum with less than 5 cm across.

My albino bellatulum was reported to be a division from clonal expansion of a large form produced in the Orchid Zone Nursery in the U.S. I'm expecting its performance once it sets a flower bud.

Although 5.8 is slightly disappointing, your clone is quite a good form. If it is its first bloom, there's still a room for improvement. After all, Hong Kong is a place where orchid competitions are neither popular, nor being taken seriously, at least when compared to somewhere around the globe such as the U.S, Taiwan, or Japan. So it's my view that it doesn't matter how the clone looks like. The only thing to care is you like it!

bellatulum alba from OZ were made more than 15 years ago. They were sold at USD100 at that time. However, most of the clones are not circular in shape and pouches are elongated in proportion to the flowers. However, perhaps most of the bellatulum alba existed nowadays might all came from those clones from the OZ. Fortunately there could be newly discovered clones to improve both shape and size ~