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Peloric Orchids
On Tue, 18 May 2004 22:33:37 GMT, "GrlIntrpted"
wrote: I found the following definition for peloric on the web: Peloric - In orchids, a term used to describe an unusual and often beautiful (sometimes grotesque) condition where all three petals (instead of just one) attempt to fashion themselves into lip colors and/or shapes. peloric \Pe*lo"ric\, a. (Bot.) Abnormally regular or symmetrical. --Darwin. I have no clue what it really means, when it happens, and why it happens. Can we talk a little bit about this "abnormality"? I really would love to learn about it. Mariana You might want to look through the prior discussion on the subject. The following TinyURL will give you a google search on prior post on the topic: http://tinyurl.com/2au8b In orchids the lip is a modified petal. When the two other petals (generally at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock) start showing characteristics of the lip (shape or color or both), the bloom is referred to a peloric. Whether the result is seen as "beautiful" or "deformed" depends a lot on the personal taste of the viewer. deg |
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Pelorism is defined as a situation in flowers where there is symmetry in a situation that should
be - true in orchids whether that is three lips or three similar (non-lip) petals. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! .. . . . . . . . . . . "GrlIntrpted" wrote in message et... I found the following definition for peloric on the web: Peloric - In orchids, a term used to describe an unusual and often beautiful (sometimes grotesque) condition where all three petals (instead of just one) attempt to fashion themselves into lip colors and/or shapes. peloric \Pe*lo"ric\, a. (Bot.) Abnormally regular or symmetrical. --Darwin. I have no clue what it really means, when it happens, and why it happens. Can we talk a little bit about this "abnormality"? I really would love to learn about it. Mariana -- Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle. |
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oops...
That was supposed to be a situation in flowers where there is symmetry in a situation that should NOT be -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! .. . . . . . . . . . . "Ray" wrote in message ... Pelorism is defined as a situation in flowers where there is symmetry in a situation that should be - true in orchids whether that is three lips or three similar (non-lip) petals. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . . "GrlIntrpted" wrote in message et... I found the following definition for peloric on the web: Peloric - In orchids, a term used to describe an unusual and often beautiful (sometimes grotesque) condition where all three petals (instead of just one) attempt to fashion themselves into lip colors and/or shapes. peloric \Pe*lo"ric\, a. (Bot.) Abnormally regular or symmetrical. --Darwin. I have no clue what it really means, when it happens, and why it happens. Can we talk a little bit about this "abnormality"? I really would love to learn about it. Mariana -- Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle. |
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Sorry, Ray I didn't mean to jump on top of your post, it was just the last
one I read before I clicked the "respond to" button. The flower parts of an orchid are arranged in two whorls. There are three sepals in the outer whorl. For the most part these sepals are similar to each other in shape and markings. Sometimes these sepals are called tepals. (Lets not go there right now.) There are three petals in the inner whorl. One of these petals has evolved an irregular shape which we call a lip which means the inner whorl of the orchid flower is normally irregular. :-) What changes would make an orchid flower appear abnormally regular or symmetrical? (Think of trilateral symmetry here, not bilateral symmetry) What changes would make the three 'petals' in the whorl look more alike? Deformed flowers are very common. Not all deformed flowers are peloric, strictly speaking, although you are likely to hear people describe them as peloric. (I have been among this group of people.) Color, pattern and markings, (rather than an actual shape change that leads to an abnormally regular appearance) are sometimes called semi-peloric or just plain peloric. Pelorism can happen in any orchid genera. The botanical definition is valid for all flowers, orchids or not, that have evolved an irregular shape and can be applied to those individuals of the species that produce regular shaped flower. With regard to the three flower parts of the inner whorl; the two petals and the lip. Evolution has changed the 'bottom' petal into a lip. So that this two petal, one lip arrangement is normal in orchids. Most appearances of pelorism show up as changes in the two petals that echo the marking or shape of the lip. This is common in Phals leading some people (me included) to define 'peloric' more narrowly than the botanical definition as referring to only mutations in the petals that reflect the markings or shape of the lip. (I am not saying they are correct or incorrect to do this. I am just making a point that the word peloric means different things to different people) A change in the lip that makes it similar to the petals is more rare. I can only think of one example he Phal. World Class 'Big Foot', JC/AOS. In this flower the lip has de-evolved back into a petal, producing a throw back to the probable shape of the orchid flower's ancestor before the lip evolved. In it's award description, as recorded in Wildcat, the judges write: 'Big Foot' "has a uniformly petaloid lip which has vestigial features of a normal lip". It has been called a "reverse peloric" by some (probably me too) because it is the reverse of the normally seen type of pelorism in Phals. Adhering to the botanical definition, it is still, and only, "peloric". "Ray" wrote in message ... oops... That was supposed to be a situation in flowers where there is symmetry in a situation that should NOT be -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . . "Ray" wrote in message ... Pelorism is defined as a situation in flowers where there is symmetry in a situation that should be - true in orchids whether that is three lips or three similar (non-lip) petals. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . . "GrlIntrpted" wrote in message et... I found the following definition for peloric on the web: Peloric - In orchids, a term used to describe an unusual and often beautiful (sometimes grotesque) condition where all three petals (instead of just one) attempt to fashion themselves into lip colors and/or shapes. peloric \Pe*lo"ric\, a. (Bot.) Abnormally regular or symmetrical. --Darwin. I have no clue what it really means, when it happens, and why it happens. Can we talk a little bit about this "abnormality"? I really would love to learn about it. Mariana -- Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle. |
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Thank you Ray and Al, thank you deg, very helpful and a keeper for future
reading. Mariana "Al" wrote in message ... Sorry, Ray I didn't mean to jump on top of your post, it was just the last one I read before I clicked the "respond to" button. The flower parts of an orchid are arranged in two whorls. There are three sepals in the outer whorl. For the most part these sepals are similar to each other in shape and markings. Sometimes these sepals are called tepals. (Lets not go there right now.) There are three petals in the inner whorl. One of these petals has evolved an irregular shape which we call a lip which means the inner whorl of the orchid flower is normally irregular. :-) What changes would make an orchid flower appear abnormally regular or symmetrical? (Think of trilateral symmetry here, not bilateral symmetry) What changes would make the three 'petals' in the whorl look more alike? Deformed flowers are very common. Not all deformed flowers are peloric, strictly speaking, although you are likely to hear people describe them as peloric. (I have been among this group of people.) Color, pattern and markings, (rather than an actual shape change that leads to an abnormally regular appearance) are sometimes called semi-peloric or just plain peloric. Pelorism can happen in any orchid genera. The botanical definition is valid for all flowers, orchids or not, that have evolved an irregular shape and can be applied to those individuals of the species that produce regular shaped flower. With regard to the three flower parts of the inner whorl; the two petals and the lip. Evolution has changed the 'bottom' petal into a lip. So that this two petal, one lip arrangement is normal in orchids. Most appearances of pelorism show up as changes in the two petals that echo the marking or shape of the lip. This is common in Phals leading some people (me included) to define 'peloric' more narrowly than the botanical definition as referring to only mutations in the petals that reflect the markings or shape of the lip. (I am not saying they are correct or incorrect to do this. I am just making a point that the word peloric means different things to different people) A change in the lip that makes it similar to the petals is more rare. I can only think of one example he Phal. World Class 'Big Foot', JC/AOS. In this flower the lip has de-evolved back into a petal, producing a throw back to the probable shape of the orchid flower's ancestor before the lip evolved. In it's award description, as recorded in Wildcat, the judges write: 'Big Foot' "has a uniformly petaloid lip which has vestigial features of a normal lip". It has been called a "reverse peloric" by some (probably me too) because it is the reverse of the normally seen type of pelorism in Phals. Adhering to the botanical definition, it is still, and only, "peloric". "Ray" wrote in message ... oops... That was supposed to be a situation in flowers where there is symmetry in a situation that should NOT be -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . . "Ray" wrote in message ... Pelorism is defined as a situation in flowers where there is symmetry in a situation that should be - true in orchids whether that is three lips or three similar (non-lip) petals. -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! . . . . . . . . . . . "GrlIntrpted" wrote in message et... I found the following definition for peloric on the web: Peloric - In orchids, a term used to describe an unusual and often beautiful (sometimes grotesque) condition where all three petals (instead of just one) attempt to fashion themselves into lip colors and/or shapes. peloric \Pe*lo"ric\, a. (Bot.) Abnormally regular or symmetrical. --Darwin. I have no clue what it really means, when it happens, and why it happens. Can we talk a little bit about this "abnormality"? I really would love to learn about it. Mariana -- Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle. |
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'right'...what we are looking at when we look at most orchid flowers with
the lip on the 'bottom' are flowers that are turned upside down. But I didn't want to go there either. I threw in the word tepal and that was bad enough. The one botonical word Peloric causes sufficeint confusion without piling resupinate and nonresupinate on top of it. :-) I like words. I like using them correctly. Here's hoping everyone has forgotten about the wench and the augur. "Myrmecodia" wrote in message om... "Al" wrote in message ... With regard to the three flower parts of the inner whorl; the two petals and the lip. Evolution has changed the 'bottom' petal into a lip. Great post! Just a minor nitpick: It is the upper petal that is converted into the lip. Most orchid buds twist 180 degrees before they open, so that the lip moves to the bottom of the open flower. Some orchids do not twist, and the lip remains where it started, at the top. But perhaps that's why you put 'bottom' in quotes... Nick |
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Here's hoping everyone has forgotten about the wench and the augur.
Not a chance, Al! You own those two for life...... Diana ;oD |
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Augur? Did I miss the augur????
-- Reka This is LIFE! It's not a rehearsal. Don't miss it! http://www.rolbox.it/hukari/index.html "Diana Kulaga" schrieb im Newsbeitrag nk.net... Here's hoping everyone has forgotten about the wench and the augur. Not a chance, Al! You own those two for life...... Diana ;oD --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.688 / Virus Database: 449 - Release Date: 18.05.04 |
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"Al" wrote in message ...
With regard to the three flower parts of the inner whorl; the two petals and the lip. Evolution has changed the 'bottom' petal into a lip. Great post! Just a minor nitpick: It is the upper petal that is converted into the lip. Most orchid buds twist 180 degrees before they open, so that the lip moves to the bottom of the open flower. Some orchids do not twist, and the lip remains where it started, at the top. But perhaps that's why you put 'bottom' in quotes... Nick |
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