My husband saw this in a store and bought it for me. He knows that I want different colors and thought it was a color that we haven’t seen before. It reminds us of an iris. Hopefully, this is its true color and not dyed…..RIGHT? !
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Also, with a dyed orchid you would not see different patterns in the petals such as that. The flower and the lip would be the same color and it would be solid.
That’s good news because I do like it.
Well, congrats! That's one amazing phal you have
True colour, potentially one of the Sogo varieties, but very difficult to ID phals without labels.
People who dye flowers wish they could get them to look anywhere near this good. The fade, the alternating colour pattern and intensity between the petals, that's all real genetics.
That’s a pretty sogo-something purple!
Oh that's very nice!
Looks like a chick waiting for mum to feed it
You are right,My goodness! Now that's all I see!
Yes
Very cute! Indeed, a true color. These little gems are often referred to as multifloral phals. I would have grabbed that baby!
True. With those dyed ones you can usually find a sealed wound somewhere around the base of the spike.
debee51 [OP] 9 points · Jan 2024
Thanks, I need to look at the dyed ones in the store to find what you are talking about so that I know what to look for. Of course, a blue orchid flower is fairly obvious that it’s dyed.