Seed pods can abort at any point during the maturing time. This can be for cultural reasons (too much or too little water, temperature swings, whatever), or that the plant was too small, or for no reason that we can figure out.
__________________
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.
|