"I recently obtained a couple of phrag. bessae, d'allessandro and hybrids. Now
one of them is flowering and the flower is totally misshapen: the petals are
concave and the pouch cannot separate. I posted a picture under
http://www.jeandewitte.de/orchids/bessae2.jpg. Can anybody identify what is
happening?"
I have seen similar flower deformities in paphs and phrags when plants experienced either drought stress or excessively cool temperatures during bud development. These same plants have bloomed properly for me when given better conditions.
Dennis Westler
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