This NOID surprised me

[topiarybud]

Check out what I brought home today. I confirmed with the seller that this is a NOID, and there were only 2 of them on the shelf. So I believe that this one could be eliminated from a new hybrid selection. Put aside the imperfect shape of petals, the color,the vein and the spots are all compacted into a 4cm wide flower, that makes it looks so special and beautiful to me. Although I already have enough blooming phals for my living room, just can't help bringing this cutie home also.

[MattWoelfsen]

A lovely mutant! Phalaenopsis often flower these variations otherwise known as "peloric". I have several of these plants that are peloric. They make a nice change from the normal flower.

[Orchidgirl83]

What a cool looking little flower.

[WhiteRabbit]

Wow! Awesome! Great find!

[Ferns Daddy]

Very nice

[topiarybud]

Originally Posted by MattWoelfsen

A lovely mutant! Phalaenopsis often flower these variations otherwise known as "peloric". I have several of these plants that are peloric. They make a nice change from the normal flower.

Thank you MattWoelfsen, let me know the word "peloric." I even can't find the defination in my dictionary. I like the word "peloric", because I googled "peloric" and found so many beautiful and special phals that I've never seen before.

Here is another photo I took this morning.

[ValorieBoyer]

That is such a cool looking bloom, and the colors are so intense! Very nice!

[PaphMadMan]

The word peloric is somewhat misunderstood. It is commonly thought to mean that the petals of an orchid flower have taken on some characteristics (pattern, shape, color) of the lip, as the flower in your picture has. While that is one example of a peloric flower, that isn't all there is to it.

Any change in a bilaterally symmetrical flower (like an orchid) that makes it closer to radial symmetry (like a lily) is peloric. Sometimes a flower with extra parts (petals, sepals, lips, columns, or any combination) gets called peloric, but it usually isn't. Those flowers are usually less like radial symmetry, not more.

There are Dendrobiums (probably other orchids too) where the lip looks exactly like petals (instead of the petals looking like the lip). This is also peloric.

There are Cymbidiums and Cattleyas where the lateral sepals take on some characteristics of the lip. These are not peloric, though they are often called peloric.

Also, peloric flowers may or may not be mutants. A mutation must be an inheritable change. Sometimes flowers are peloric because of disruption of development of the flower at early stages, sometimes caused by environment, toxins, etc. It isn't genetic it may or may not every happen again, and it can't be inherited, so it isn't a mutation. This applies to any kind of deformed flower. If it can't be inherited it isn't a mutation.

[FSUOrchids]

That's an interesting peloric orchid. I don't usually see that kind of mutation. I have one that's more similar to that 2nd picture posted up this thread

[topiarybud]

Thank you PaphMadMan, for the very detailed explanation of a peloric flower. No matter this NOID is peloric or not, I'm really attracted by its intense color. By seaching the word "peloric," I found some perfect peloric phals, both in shape and coloring, on this blog.The Hybridization of Big Lip Form Peloric Phalaenopsis---2 @
One of the photos is so close to the coloring of my NOID.