regular and trilaterally symmetric? Isn't the inner whorl still irregular,
even though it is not it's "normal" state of irregularity? It has two
petals and no lip rather than three petals and a lip. It has bilateral
symmetry, yes, but so does the normally irregular inner whorl of the orchid
flower. I would think the three petals of the inner whorl need to be
mutated in some whey to make them all similar to each other for it to be
peloric by the botanical definition of the word..

....just playing devil's advocate, SuE



"Susan Erickson" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 24 May 2004 12:50:07 -0400, "Al"
wrote:

It is kind of pretty. This happens occasionally to a single flower or
two
on an inflorescence of otherwise normal flowers. It is not a very
consistent mutation. My guess is that it is caused by temperature or
diurnal range stresses while buds and spikes are developing and that some
species/hybrids are more susceptible to it than others. But this is just
a
guess, I don't know why it happens.

Anybody care to speculate if they think this fits into the set of
"abnormally regular" mutations required to define it as 'peloric' :-)

Al

Well you have to agree
(1) it is abnormal.
(2) It is regular: 2 to 2.
Therefore (3) it is peloric.


SuE
http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php