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Paph Delrosi
First, a short story. When I bought this plant, it was supposed to be a
2 growth plant. When I got it, it seemed to actually be two single growth plants. They were only connected because their roots were tangled. I got them apart and potted up each in its own pot. I wondered if they had once been the same plant or if there were 2 different seedlings. The first one bloomed about a year and a half ago. The second one is in bloom now. I am now convinced that they are the exact same plant. The flowers are identical. The other bit of evidence is that they both did the same odd thing when they bloomed. They first put up a single flower with nearly no stem and that one flower was flattened and deformed. you can see the short stem in these pictures, right next to the flowering spike. The only stem the first flower had was the part that would have turned into the seed capsule, if it had been pollinated. As soon as that first flower faded, a second spike emerged from the same growth and had normal flowers, as seen in these pictures. Steve |
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Paph Delrosi
Very nice Steve, a true clone indeed.
Cheers Wendy "Steve" wrote in message ... First, a short story. When I bought this plant, it was supposed to be a 2 growth plant. When I got it, it seemed to actually be two single growth plants. They were only connected because their roots were tangled. I got them apart and potted up each in its own pot. I wondered if they had once been the same plant or if there were 2 different seedlings. The first one bloomed about a year and a half ago. The second one is in bloom now. I am now convinced that they are the exact same plant. The flowers are identical. The other bit of evidence is that they both did the same odd thing when they bloomed. They first put up a single flower with nearly no stem and that one flower was flattened and deformed. you can see the short stem in these pictures, right next to the flowering spike. The only stem the first flower had was the part that would have turned into the seed capsule, if it had been pollinated. As soon as that first flower faded, a second spike emerged from the same growth and had normal flowers, as seen in these pictures. Steve |
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