another problem lip

[jimspaphs]

This is Highland Gold = (Michael Stewart x Shapely ) and has this problem every few years.


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[Dung Lung]

can you think of the reason?

 

[Ozpaph]

not so 'Shapely'

 

[fibre]

It's a beautiful flower! (beside the rhino like pouch)

 

[Ryan Young]

Probably weird ploidy aneuploidy chromosome count doesn't know what to do with the extra tissue.

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[Mark Karayannis]

It happen to me Jim and still does now and then and still I don,t know why

 

[Guldal]

I've seen the same thing (or something akin to) happen a few times - and haven't been able to crack the code or solve the enigma?

I find it especially mysterious, when it happens among the multiflorals, e.g. my recent St.Swithin, where the first flower to open had a slight 'horn'/'dentation' on the labellum, which is completely absent in the other 3 flowers; or suddenly in one flower among the succesive flowers of a plant in section cochlopetalum, e.g. my P. victoria-mariae (that are flowering in the "cooler section" on my back stairs at home): after several perfectly formed flowers...suddenly a dentation on the lip...the next flowers again no sight of such a thing? I can't exactly remember, but maybe the dentation showed up a little while after the use of an insectiside to kill off a light invasion of mealy bugs?

 

[SlipperFan]

It is a unicorn!

 

[blondie]

Despite the addition of a horn its a really nice, coloured hybrid hopefully next flowering it will be a stunner.

 

[troy]

Lip... lol.. it's a 3rd eye!!!