Dendrobium Silver Eye Deformity

[NotNoticable]

Recently, my Dendrobium Silver Eye that has always bloomed normally recently put out a flower that seems to have either merged with another bud or grown extra petals and sepals, I know there’s nothing wrong with the plant itself and this thing just happens. Would this flower be considered Peloric?

[Dollythehun]

Sometimes flowers just fasciate. I often see it in Lilium. The tissue from two flowers sticks together and produces a double flower and/or stem. I apologize for my very untechnical explaination.

[neophyte]

the flower looks super cool! both the normal version and the fasciated version.

Dollythehun's explanation is absolutely correct: the buds grew in such close proximity that their tissues fused . Whereas peloric flowers usually gain more radial symmetry (ie., you could rotate the flower and it would still look similar/same), fasciation destroys radial symmetry.

Here is a good photo showing fasciation: fasciation

here is a good photo of pelory: pelory

tl;dr: pelory = normally bilaterally symmetrical (not very symmetric - only one line of symmetry) flowers become radially symmetric/just somehow more symmetric

fasciation (what happened with your plant) = parts fuse. although your flower seems to be more symmetric with the extra petals, parts have fused and destroyed the symmetry.

also, pelory is usually a genetic trait while fasciation is by chance.

[Dollythehun]

Thank you, neophyte. You are kind. It can be caused by hormones, fungal, bacterial, or I would suppose cultural. In any case, it probably won't happen again.