Honest, The Wife Made Me
 

Recently I've mentioned my desire to "branch out"..... want to get into some species Phals and smaller plants.... Had to go to the Orange Big Box Store to purchase a replacement GU24-CFL and just as you approach the bulbs, they had this end-cap with chids... Well, no sooner did my wife see this plant, that light bulb retrieval was a lost cause!!!!! I knew better than to have her tag along. The rest is history, as they say!!!!:evil::evil::rofl: Oh, and yes, I had to go back for the light bulb!!!!!

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Stunning phal!! :love: Even on a normal phal the colors would be very nice, but the semi peloric touch really makes it look awesome! Hopefully it will stay peloric in future bloomings.

Wow how lucky to find it at a big box store! To bad it's a noid! What a beauty!

I'm hoping next season it will bloom in a similar manner.... only time will tell....

That's a real beauty! Congrats.

Oh WOW. she is soo pretty! But what does semi peloric mean?

I'm jelous of you guys in the usa, you seem to get so much choice in your stores!

Wow, what a beautly. As Camille said that's wonderful colours even if it was normal but the semi-peloric makes it look stunning.

Sammy, peloric is when the petals mimic the lip. In a full peloric it will almost completly mimic the lip. There are then lots of orchids which are somewhere in between. This one is only slightly peloric with that spike like bit in the center of each petal.

Generally with peloric orchids the same orchid can be found in a 'normal' form and sometimes it will revert back to a normal form in future bloomings.

Very,very,eye catching -Nice buy! Beautiful colours & super photos! Congrats!

Great colors! I too was at the big orange box store today and they were putting away a new shipment of orchids. I debated for about 20 minutes and decided against getting one a very similar color to yours! Excellent decision on your part, even if your wife had a say in it :)

Enjoy!
Katie :)

What a stunner! I love the colour, it's amazing! And jam-packed with flowers!