Friday Mutant Orchid Blogging

(Normal flower on left, mutant on right)

Peloric Phrag. Besseae (aka A Mutant!)

This one is kind of fun in a creepy genetic way (click the image to see a larger version). It's a flower I've shown you before, from this very plant probably, but one day it bloomed a bit funny. The plant threw up a mutant flower that had an extra pair of female organs on the petals. Very creepy. Since it did it just this once, and the other flowers were normal, it was not a permanent genetic change in the plant, but rather something that went wrong with that particular flower (probably some chemicals I treated the plant with while the flower was developing). Still, it's kind of cool. I took a great photo of a flower that did something similar a while back, I'll have to find it to post it another day - but basically, if the thing could have been calling "Help me!" it would have. Totally bizarre mix of genetic mess. Anyway, so that's our Friday night mutant orchid blogging, for something a little different. Enjoy. JOHN