Thelymitra glaucophylla 'Royal Blue'

[Mafate]

Here is my Thelymitra glaucophylla 'Royal Blue' flowering or the first time. Unfortunately, the flower closed before I could take a second photo.

 

[Ozpaph]

marvellous!

 

[DrLeslieEe]

Stunning… how long flowers last? Sequential?

 

[GuRu]

Lovely ..... and I can't find any differences to your T. graminea on the first sight .... both are great. Congrats to grow and flower them.

 

[Phragper]

awesome color

 

[Mafate]

Stunning… how long flowers last? Sequential?

Thank you Leslie.

It is its first bloom so I don't know how long the flowers last. However, if I refer to my T. megcalyptra, they could last 10 days or so.

There are 4 flowers on the spike. When I took the picture, the 2 lowest were fully opened, the one just above was opening, and the top one was closed. So sequential, but in the end all the flowers can be opened at the same time.

Thelymitras are a bit of a pain when it comes to opening their flowers: if the weather isn't sunny enough or it's not warm enough, the flowers stay closed. In addition, some species seem cleistogamous like T. vulgaris or T. luteocileum: their flowers have barely opened once but despite this they are producing fruit.

 

[Mafate]

Lovely ..... and I can't find any differences to you T. graminea on the first sight .... both are great. Congrats to grow and flower them.

I agree with you Rudolf: difficult to find any difference with T. graminea.

 

[Mafate]

I could finally make the flowers open again today, so here they are.

Thelymitra glaucophylla 'Royal Blue' :


Thelymitra glaucophylla 'Royal Blue' :


Thelymitra glaucophylla 'Royal Blue' (left) and Thelymitra megcalyptra :