Laelia albida questions
Hi. This is my Laelia albida in flower. I bought this in bag baby size and have waited a long time for a flowering. Now it’s flowering, I’m a bit disappointed. The first issue is that the flowers appear to be carried on very weak stems and point downwards. The second issue is that it’s violet while I was expecting white - white would have been a nice change as I have perhaps too many violet flowers already.
Specifically it’s L. Albida ‘moonah ’ x L. albida ‘snowdrops’. I can’t find out anything about moonah but with a parent called snowdrops it never occurred to me it wouldn’t be white.
Any comments on these issues. Is the downward pointing habit perhaps a symptom of poor growing or a first flowering? Is violet to be expected with this cross?
On the plus side it’s an attractive compact growing plant which has stayed neatly in its pot and not been troubled by either bugs or disease. I grow it outside year-round.
Cheers
Arron
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