So this is a bit tricky honestly but I figured I title this according to the tag. I've learned that this plant is one of those really confusing plants. First last year I got what was supposed to be Zygopetalum Rhein Moonlight but arrived in bud with tag reading Zygosepalum Rhein Moonlight. Bud opens and its petals are peloric, not like what I thought I was getting. I come here and am graciously taught about the screwy registration of this plant. Turns out that plant is really called ZYGOLUM Rhein Moonlight, a cross between Zygosepalum Labiosum & Zygopetalum Artur Elle. Okay, got it...I think.
Then I go to recent orchid show, not many options in terms of Zygos. I see Zglm Louisendorf in bloom, I think naa...then last minute I think fine go get it. Talking to the vendor and doing some RHS research when I get home I learn that really this plant is the same as Zglm Rhein Moonlight, and to make it worse Zygolum Rhein Clown is also a registered hybrid with exactly the same parents!!! So here's one hybrid registered at least three times under different names.
Then there's the fact that some of these plants are peloric like my first one. Since the one I picked is "what it's supposed to look like" I went ahead and grabbed a plant. Low and behold he points out to me that actually the plant is two in one and the second plant is pseudo (or is it semi) peloric. I'm like hey let's get this weirdo.
So I got two for one. The semi-peloric one has one spike, two blooms, the "normal" plant has one spike with four blooms and a second spike still developing.
Another interesting thing about this versus my peloric one is that the "normal" plant smells a lot like a rose, even sort of tea roses when you get up close. Where as my other one - that I'm going to continue to call Rhein Moonlight for my own clarification - is a bit sweeter. However the 2nd plant in this pot doesn't have quite a noticeably different smell but it's also not quite as strong of a scent.
The semi-peloric pics aren't so good but I just wanted to show you what they look like and how "semi" they are. In a minute I'll link back to my Rhein Moonlight peloric plant from last year.
So here you are:
Here's, not my first from March, but the second time my Zglm Rhein Moonlight bloomed last year:
Zygolum Rhein Moonlight
Zygolum Louisendorf in bloom
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