Natural Blue Phalaenopsis, does it exist?

[ValorieBoyer]

I've been trying to figure out if natural blue phalaenopsis exist or not. I don't mean those bastardized "injected/soaked with dye" ones that aren't blue past their first blooming (pretty but fake and piss me off because they fool so many people) I mean natural/hybridized will bloom blue every single time ones. I know other orchids have blue variants, but do Phals?

[RandomGemini]

No. They do not.

There is a group that is trying to hybridize a blue phal, but blue is not a color that occurs in phals in nature.

[ValorieBoyer]

I didn't think so, thanks for confirming!

[Edward Brookes]

the term,"Coerulea" seems to be applied wherever a variant tends toward a shade of lilac, the true blue remains as elusive as ever until one sees some of the Australian terrestrials. There are now a number of phals described as being blue, & they do have a sort of blue tone to the lilac shade. Very pretty, but blue? not to my eye. Those treated blue ones are sad fakes, like the dyed tropical fish coming out of the far east & selling so well in pet stores. Genetic engineering may do the trick, but nature's own phals ain't got no blues.

[cbuchman]

I have Phal. Little Blue Bird which is blue with some purple tones. I also have Ho's Lovely Amethyst which has quite a bit of blue in it. Neither is "true blue".

Little Blue Bird

[ValorieBoyer]

Originally Posted by cbuchman

I have Phal. Little Blue Bird which is blue with some purple tones. I also have Ho's Lovely Amethyst which has quite a bit of blue in it. Neither is "true blue".

Little Blue Bird
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Pretty! Is your Little Blue Bird a miniature?

[cbuchman]

Yes it is miniature - at least the flowers are small, The plant leafs are about 6" so it had a ~ 12" leaf span side to side

[ValorieBoyer]

Originally Posted by cbuchman

Yes it is miniature - at least the flowers are small, The plant leafs are about 6" so it had a ~ 12" leaf span side to side

See, I'm only a newbie but automatically I wanna get some seeds/pollen from you and start messing around with breeding I only wish it didn't take years, ha!