Phal with massive lip and pink root tips! (also multifloral paph & mottled leaf phal)

[astrid]

Hey everyone!

Trader Joe's did it to me yet again.

I am in shock that I bought two phalaenopsis orchids. Really in shock! But they are both just so special that I couldn't pass them up!

The first orchid is a phal with amazing lips!! Seriously, look at the size of those things! The thing that reeeeally pushed me into buying it was the fact that it has pink root growth tips. PINK! Like a neofinetia falcata! PINK!! Like the color of my cotton candy frappuccino. I couldn't pass it up. I plan to mount it on a big piece of driftwood someday so it can overtake it with those awesome pink root tips!




The second is some kind of mottled leaf phal, and I really love it. I hope to find more of these sometime. I really hate phals that are out of bloom because of their big, plain, floofy leaves, but this makes it all better! Better yet- they are all purple underneath!!





The third is a multifloral (but unfortunately tall) paph niveum hybrid. I am so excited to be finding something beyond a boring maudiae hybrid at TJs! Without the flash, the undersides of the leaves on this one are almost black. They are beautifully mottled as well! I loooove this type of paph hybrid, though I am sad it is not short and adorable like some of its siblings.





Thanks for looking, friends!

PS - forgive me, I'm not responsible for these blooms, but I still want to show them off!