myxodex
Well-Known Member
This one is a bit odd, ... and I nearly threw it out. I was not impressed the first time it flowered in 2007. I found an old pic of it then.
This plant has grown on me over the last 4 years and this year it has put itself decidedly on my keepers list.
I wanted to show the plant as well here because I like it's growth form. The bigger than normal flowers (up to 3.5 cm deep excluding spur) are overexposed here and appear typically white instead of the creamy white they really are.
The leaves have an unusual subtle variegation with darker green submarginal stripes that are associated a greater
thickness in the leaf.
While the flower colour and the strange leaves are not the features that make me decide to keep this plant, but together with the frequency which which it sheds lower leaves, that turn bright red in the process, they cause me to question whether this might actually be a hybrid.
This plant has grown on me over the last 4 years and this year it has put itself decidedly on my keepers list.
I wanted to show the plant as well here because I like it's growth form. The bigger than normal flowers (up to 3.5 cm deep excluding spur) are overexposed here and appear typically white instead of the creamy white they really are.
The leaves have an unusual subtle variegation with darker green submarginal stripes that are associated a greater
thickness in the leaf.
While the flower colour and the strange leaves are not the features that make me decide to keep this plant, but together with the frequency which which it sheds lower leaves, that turn bright red in the process, they cause me to question whether this might actually be a hybrid.