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Dendrobium Lips
These photos were taken by avid photographer, Ms Rita Sim, during her visit to our nursery a few months ago. You may view the full collections of her works here. *This entry was backdated. ** Photos courtesy of Ms Rita Sim
Petal Fusion
We have found a peculiar anomaly within our nursery. Previously, we have reviewed ‘Splash Mutations’ that involves a rare splash-patterned pigmentation on the petal/sepals. In a nutshell, mutations are changes in plant/flower anatomy and characteristics, brought about by environmental and/or genetic factors. For this anomaly in particular, we have queried several growers whom have decades of experience; and none of [...]
A Single Cross
Frequently unknown to most layman, orchids can produce many phenotypic colours and traits in a single cross with multiple alleles suppressing each other. Taking for example the above crossing between the brown curly, purple lipped Dendrobium Spatulata and yellow and red lipped Dendrobium SGH. Their progenies gave rise to a bizarre phentypic combination of orchids [...]
