Cattleya chimera - Orchid Board

catwalker808 · #1 08-18-2009, 03:49 AM

This is another chimera, like the den I posted in the den section.

The term chimera originated in greek mythology. The Chimera was a mythical creature with a lion's body & head, a goat's head coming out of the body's spine, and a snake's head being the creature's tail.

My photo is Iwanagaara Appleblossom. Normally this color form would be all yellow. My flower is a chimera, like having a white flower as part of a yellow flower. And no, this is not a color break, as in a virused plant. Divisions of this plant would have the same color patterns. Clones would probably split into two forms, white or yellow .. maybe an occasional one with some sort of chimera, not necessarily identical.

RosieC · #2 08-18-2009, 04:25 AM

Wow, I've never seen anything like that.

natasha · #3 08-18-2009, 05:03 AM

that's awesome... there are human chimaeras too... i guess there's a freaky nature in everything.

kinknstein · #4 08-18-2009, 11:05 AM

Neat!!

Zoi2 · #5 08-18-2009, 01:26 PM

Oh wow!!
Joann

Louis_C · #6 08-18-2009, 10:18 PM

impressive. exactly half/half.

catwalker808 · #7 08-19-2009, 12:37 AM

Another real life example of a chimera is a werewolf ... but only when it's transforming.

natasha · #8 08-19-2009, 02:34 AM

there is a lady who found out her 4 adult children wasn't hers, but belong to her sibling's ovaries. the chimaera part is only the reproductive organ. i can't imagine that! in cats, its call mosaicism i think, which is usually occur to cats with weird pattern, like having 4 colours instead of 3 max... but your collection of chimaeras are awesome, esp the 50/50 catts!

veekay · #9 08-21-2009, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by catwalker808

This is another chimera, like the den I posted in the den section.

The term chimera originated in greek mythology. The Chimera was a mythical creature with a lion's body & head, a goat's head coming out of the body's spine, and a snake's head being the creature's tail.

My photo is Iwanagaara Appleblossom. Normally this color form would be all yellow. My flower is a chimera, like having a white flower as part of a yellow flower. And no, this is not a color break, as in a virused plant. Divisions of this plant would have the same color patterns. Clones would probably split into two forms, white or yellow .. maybe an occasional one with some sort of chimera, not necessarily identical.

Hi,
it is lovely.Is this flower called a sport?
veekay

catwalker808 · #10 08-21-2009, 09:44 PM

I believe a sport refers to variegation in leaves of a shoot/pseudobulb which originated from a regular green plant. That is, a regular plant produced a new growth and that growth had a variegation.

Don't know if this chimera is the same, since it is a plant directly from seed and not a variant outgrowth from a normal plant.

I defer to experts in these matters.