Funky besseae

[MorandiWine]

This plant gave me two spikes this season, one totally normal and one that took a ride to funky-town. I have seen this before at other nurseries and was always curious what would cause this phenomenon? Oh ya, the flower before this one on the same spike did not have a staminode!

Tyler

 

[abax]

Genetic malformation maybe? Did you drop it on its' head?
Poor baby, it'll do better next time since you know it can.
Show it to your buddy the Springer and see what he says
about it...or maybe he'll eat it and put it out of your misery. I love that big nose dog!

 

[MorandiWine]

Ha! Thanks Abax, Diego is the proverbial 'Bull in a china shop' when he sneaks in the GH. Stuff is all over the place.

As for my besseae who knows?!

Tyler


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[SlipperFan]

Genetics or culture? It's a mystery to me.

 

[MorandiWine]

same plant on a different spike gave me a totally normal flower......

 

[eaborne]

I see this happen periodically with ploidy issues in triploid(3N) and tetraploids(4N) plants.