The flower got beaten up a little, as it went to the DCOS show and came back in 9F weather. Anyway, here is a photo of the fully open flower.
What I find really fascinating, is that both parents were 'normal' coloration = white border on the dorsal, and this plant has no white on the dorsal
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Kim (Fair Orchids)
Founder of SPCOP (Society to Prevention of Cruelty to Orchid People), with the goal of barring the taxonomists from tinkering with established genera!
I am neither a 'lumper' nor a 'splitter', but I refuse to re-write millions of labels.
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