Remember, these "named" cultivars are mericlones, produced when a grower feels that they have a special plant. They only grow a finite number of them, then when they are gone they are gone. The same is true of hybrids in general - the ones that sell a lot may get either remade (and may or may not look like the ones that got the attention, certainly will not share the cultivar name) or mericloned. And over time, the repeatedly-mericloned plants may not look like the original either since mutations creep in. (Like Onc. Sharry Baby 'Sweet Fragrance'... after many years of cloning and cloning the clones, fragrance may be lost, flowers smaller, etc. even if theoretically they are genetically identical to the original)
Once a hybrid has been around for awhile, breeders move on to try different combinations... that is the creative side of orchid production.
Last edited by Roberta; 08-06-2018 at 01:47 PM..
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