Cycnodes ‘Wine Delight’ Mutation

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My catasetum here has quite the mutation, looks like a flower spike fused with a new growth giving an interesting... outcome?

Thought it would be interesting to share

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Here are the pictures

[mere_dog]

How strange! I can't wait to see what it does!

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Originally Posted by mere_dog

How strange! I can't wait to see what it does!

I update you when it blooms

[katrina]

I've had that happen 2 or 3 times. When it happened to my plants...once the flowers were done, it died off like a regular spike.

[SaraJean]

Here is a thread I made last year when I had this happen. The spike didn’t really elongate like a normal one and the bulb part with roots didn’t get much larger. It only bloomed with two flowers and died back like a normal spike after flowering. It got back on track and pushed out a normal new growth shortly after. I guess this just happens from time to time with these complex hybrids
Odd looking growth

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by SaraJean

Here is a thread I made last year when I had this happen. The spike didn’t really elongate like a normal one and the bulb part with roots didn’t get much larger. It only bloomed with two flowers and died back like a normal spike after flowering. It got back on track and pushed out a normal new growth shortly after. I guess this just happens from time to time with these complex hybrids
Odd looking growth

Nice thread! Thanks for sharing that. My recent memory about something like this led me back to a page related to this kind of thing. Quite an interesting effect.

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Sorry I forgot all about this, it only bloomed one flower but the flower was completely normal. I pinch off the flower as it was dying and the “pseudobulb” never dried out, and it started making a new growth.

Once again I’m sorry I didn’t get a photo