Neofinetia falcata, Mangekyo 万華鏡

[Hakumin]

A bit off season, though at this point, I'm not sure if it's considered early or late.









万華鏡 - Mangekyo. Three spur variety with pink spurs and pink and green blushes to the petals. The variety was selected in Korea from the offspring of a cross between Manjushage and Raizan.

[DeaC]

A gorgeous shooting star. Wonderful coloration too.

[bjmac]

Very nice.

[camille1585]

This one is just wonderful looking! Looks like little shooting stars or fireworks with the white center and pink spurs. I'd love one to find one of these or similar.

[Pattywack]

Gorgeous flowers! The color is very nice as well. The flowers look smaller, almost heaven facing on this one. Thank you for sharing!

[Shoreguy]

This is my Neof. Mangekyo. I learned of this cultivar from this Hakumin thread and immediately knew I had to have one.

I purchased it in 2018 and its first two bloomings were less than spectacular, actually quite bad. The first blooming had some of the flowers missing one of the secondary spurs. I was so upset I PMed Hakumin and he assured me that the same thing happened to him initially but the plant would correct that on succeeding bloomings. It did, all buds then had three spurs but some buds never opened. That of course was on me for bad culture. Finally the third blooming is fine, pictured here, not anywhere near as deep colored as Hakumin's spectacular plant but attractive nevertheless, almost pastel pink spurs. I understand additional light may make it darker but even if not, I'm happy with it.

[K-Sci]

Originally Posted by Shoreguy

This is my Neof. Mangekyo. I learned of this cultivar from this Hakumin thread and immediately knew I had to have one
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Finally the third blooming is fine, pictured here, not anywhere near as deep colored as Hakumin's spectacular plant but attractive nevertheless, almost pastel pink spurs. I understand additional light may make it darker but even if not, I'm happy with it.

From what I can see of the plant in the background behind the flowers, it's not a bad looking plant, either.

[Shoreguy]

Originally Posted by K-Sci

From what I can see of the plant in the background behind the flowers, it's not a bad looking plant, either.

Just a typical clean green leafed Neo. Surprisingly the growth with the spike in flower is a small secondary growth and not the mother growth which has a spike developing but held off on its development to allow its child to shine.

The secondary growth is bent forward with only two leaves visible in the photo. You are looking at the primary growth.

[K-Sci]

Can you tell if the mother growth's flowers will be triple-spur and colorful, or is it too early?

[Shoreguy]

This season's blooming of my Neof. Mangekyo, my best yet.

Photo on the right has blooms with all 3 spurs and all buds with 3 spurs developing. Instead of my kitchen as backdrop, I have upped the class immeasurably with a photo from the 2021 Arizona Highways Calendar, photo by Shane McDermott.

I took the photo on the right instead of waiting for all buds to open for fear the older blooms would start fading. I could have waited for the final bud to open on the spike from the mother plant but was getting impatient. Two flower spikes are involved. All but one bud out of the 6 open on the spike from the mother plant and none open yet on the 5 from the offshoot.

Photo on the left has all buds opened except one of 5 from the offshoot spike. I am surprised no flowers are fading yet.