Peloric Phalaenopsis ?s
I have this Phalaenopsis that I purchased with about 50% of the flowers open and the other 50% that I thought were just starting to open. It's been close to a month and those "partially open" flowers haven't changed. I realized today, that the "partially open" flowers are peloric.
I'm not finding the peloric flowers on this plant attractive. When it reblooms, will it still have a large proportion of peloric flowers, or is there a chance that the next spike will be normal?
There's another Palaenopsis at the grocery store that has the wavy edged flat peloric petals. Of its open flowers, all are peloric except two. Of those two, one is normal and one is half peloric (not symetric, 1/2 normal, 1/2 peloric). Same question: is this a stable trait, will the next spike have the same features? I like the peloric and normal flowers on this plant, but the half and half flower is "ugly".
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