Orchid Aliens

Orchids are weird.....
let's just leave it at that.....

Here's a NOID Phalaenopsis orchid that mom got from her colleague for her birthday. It is not your normal phalaenopsis wit five petals that makes the flower resemble a butterfly.  This is a mutated phalaenopsis called a peloric orchid because its petals are all messed up.  Some peloric orchids look like origami roses, but this one looks like the flower version of a frilled necked lizard.








Similar??????

No???....oh well. They're similar in my overactive imagination.


 

Another weirdo in my orchid collection.  I was trying to save a phalaenopsis that my mom brought home from work using water culture.  The original orchid had a very little amount of roots and only one leaf, but then it started to grow roots and a new leaf.  Strangely, the new leaf was ten times smaller than the original leaf.  What an orchid is willing to do to stay alive.....