a blue real phal

[Call_Me_Bob]

It's real, Scientists make world's 1st blue orchid The blue genes come from Asiatic Dayflowers.

Interesting! I find it novel and intriguing. But I honestly hope it isn't breed able!!! Like expressed earlier, it's a short cut that makes breeding efforts irrelevant. I HATE everything died/unnatural and thsi being created in the lab would fall under that category in my book. I'm not even sure if I like colchicine treated plants. But at least colchicne doesn't give plants hue's that they wouldn't otherwise have, it just intensifies what they already have.

There is a good discussion over at Big Leaf! Big Leaf Orchid forum • View topic - Engineered Blue phalaenopsis

I personally see nothing wrong with intergenerics such an Vandopsis, Ascoenopsis, etc. But the difference is that those would be from natural pollen-on-flower productions. Not created in the lab. That's what make it distasteful to me.