Here are 3 photos showing what line breeding is all about.
The first flower is from a wild collected plant, probably collected sometime in the 1940's or 1950's.
The second flower is an Orchid Zone bred plant, from about 10 years ago.
The last photo is a Lehua plant, which bloomed for the first time recently. Based on the broad petals and enlarged staminode, this plant might be a spontaneous tetraploid mutation.
__________________ Kim (Fair Orchids)
Founder of SPCOP (Society to Prevention of Cruelty to Orchid People), with the goal of barring the taxonomists from tinkering with established genera!
I am neither a 'lumper' nor a 'splitter', but I refuse to re-write millions of labels.
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