Peloric hybrid? - Orchid Board

unhappykat · #1 08-19-2008, 10:04 PM

Hello

I got this last year in a raffle and it was labeled as Mtssa. Shelob 'Tolkien"
After a little research and the flowering of this as well as my second Tolkien I realized that it wasn;t the same plant, does anybody have any Ideas? I cant seem to find anything similar and the grower doesnt keep records.

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k...72a4833632.jpg

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k...ppykat/edg.jpg

http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k...ppykat/dfg.jpg

Thanks!

gixrj18 · #2 08-19-2008, 11:13 PM

It may just be a sibling, or different cultivar. I've seen many siblings that you would never guess were related!

unhappykat · #3 08-19-2008, 11:49 PM

I dont think so, these were mericlones, I am guessing on a different plant.

dgenovese1 · #4 08-20-2008, 12:56 AM

Kat,

I think that you have a pyloric version of Mtssa. Shelob. It looks just like a regular Mtssa. Shelob, but the sepals look more like additional lips rather than sepals. This can sometimes spontaneously occur in plants even if they are clones. The plant may bloom normally a few times and then convert. once it converts however, it will not turn back; it will always be pyloric. This is quite common in Phal. Baldan’s Kaleidoscope, one of the most cloned Phals in exsistance today.

I think that it's a beauty!

unhappykat · #5 08-20-2008, 01:59 AM

Hmm, maybe. I didnt know that could happen to a plant that was cloned,I know when you artificially clone a peloric cymbidium the result is regular plants. I guess I can stick the name tag back on it then.

BikerDoc5968 · #6 08-20-2008, 09:15 AM

Hey Kat, just a suggestion when using Photobucket and posting pics. After you upload your resized pic to 1024 x 768, just select (one click of the mouse) the last listed item under that pic "IMG Code" and return to your posting (before posting) and under the typed material, right click and select "paste". This will give you your image without viewers going to PB and it will give you nice large pic in your post.

Bird Song Farm · #7 08-20-2008, 11:21 AM

Hey Doc, when did you start keep froggies?

AL

BikerDoc5968 · #8 08-20-2008, 11:40 AM

Just another of my summer visitors....he was checking out my creeping sedum...well I guess it is creeping sedum. Don't really know where it came from but it sure does creep into everything! i posted more of my frog earlier in the summer and some folks ID'd him for me...can't recall his name now...you know what that means.....

Bird Song Farm · #9 08-20-2008, 01:55 PM

Well, he definitely is a cutie!

"...you know what that means.....

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I can most certainly relate........

AL