There are many paphs, that can be stoloniferous...at various times. For starters: The most notorious stoloniferous paphs are the parvi's armeniacum, micranthum, and malipoense. That said- in my experience, the stoloniferous habit has been bred out of many of the newer armeniacums et al, in the attempt to get easier to bloom plants. Just about every recent clone of armeniacum and micranthum I have grown recently has been described as "eas(ier)" to bloom...and micranthum indeed seems more likely to initiate buds....but blooms still elude me....but, without fail, while these plants freely initiate new growths, there are no stolons. On the other hand, a few years ago I was given a division of a malipoense that dated back to the days when legal collection existed (Pre-1990, in the US). This plant is stoloniferous as all get-out. When the big main pot was knocked over and smashed by a squirrel (what else is new?) I separated 3 stoloniferous clumps. (None are blooming size, but, again, what else is new?) I now have 3 pots of multigrowth malipoense...now, in the old days (pre- 1990 CITES regulations) every micranthum and armeniacum was stoliniferous...now, none are. As for other paphs......I have heard that druryi is stoloniferous...no personal experience on this yet..callosum (particularly the sublaeve variety) and sukhakulii are vertically stoloniferous, like phrag besseae crosses, as well as many "maudiae" type hybrids....take care, Eric Muhlbauer in hopefully soon to be defrosted Queens NY..................................................
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