Paphiopedilum appletonianum (Gower) Rolfe

Description:  An medium sized, terrestrial or lithophytic or occasional humus epiphyte herb occuring in silcate soils, leaf mold and on mossy rocks below trees with deep shade in lowland evergreen forests and primary highland cloud forests at elevations of 700 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing orchid with 6 to 8, narrowly elliptic to oblong elliptic, subacute to obtuse at the tridenticulate apex, mottled pale and darker green leaves found in China, southern Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia that blooms in the winter and spring with 1 or 2 flowers per, erect, terminal,

Photorights: Jeremy Holden

• Size:  Leaves: 6-8, 10-25 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, above green with obscure dark green mottling, below keeled with purple marks at the base, Inflorescence: 1- (rarely 2-) flowered, 15-50 cm long, purple, shortly pubescent, Bloom: 6-10 cm wide, staminode extremely variable, transversely elliptic.
• Collector/Witnesses:  Jeremy holden, Sok Vichea (2016)
• Year Collected:  2011
• Growing Media:  pot
• Flowering Period:  January -March
• Color:  dorsal sepals light green, with white border, lateral petals reddish pink, pouch green with red spots.
• Water:   2 time daily
• Light:  shade – partial shade
• Temperature:  8 - 32°C