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HeyMrDeej 11-08-2023 01:58 AM

Peloricism on sepals or am I just being delusional?
 
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My Lc Dinard ‘Blue Heaven’ has bloomed for the first time for me and its lower sepals are sporting some throat patterns on them. I know peloricism normally happens on the petals, but can they also happen on the sepals also?

Subrosa 11-08-2023 05:19 AM

Not peloric. Peloricism is a mutation in symmetry. Normal orchid flowers possess bilateral symmetry, like humans. You can draw a line down the middle and get 2 roughly symmetrical halves. A peloric orchid possesses radial symmetry, like a starfish.

Ray 11-08-2023 07:20 AM

The noun is either “peloria” or “pelorism”.

Louis_W 11-08-2023 08:38 AM

I have never seen that before!

Mutations can cause all kinds of weird stuff but if it's stable it could really be something amazing!

HeyMrDeej 11-08-2023 11:30 AM

Ahh ok. Since it’s not peloric. Is there a term for this type of deformity/mutation?

JScott 11-08-2023 09:13 PM

Either way, those blooms are beautiful. I used to have this plant, and I just loved it, but I found it to be a very unreliable bloomer. It was not uncommon for it just to skip its blooming season. I think I still have it, but the tag is gone, and the plant I'm thinking of hasn't bloomed in a long time, so it could be it. We'll know for sure when it decides to bloom again.

estación seca 11-08-2023 11:06 PM

"Peloric" as a botanical term does refer to normally zygomorphic flowers (symmetric across a plane down the center, like orchids) becoming actinomorphic (symmetric around a central axis, like roses or daisies.) But it is used informally by orchid growers to describe petals that have some of the characteristics of the lip. The most extreme are some Phalaenopsis that appear to have three lips. Less extreme are many Cattleyas that have stripes or splashes similar to those on the lip.


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