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Old 06-27-2021, 06:14 PM
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Went outside and grabbed one of my plants where you can see this best on, this one is my Bulb. carunculatum. Pic 1, growth is almost complete, so should be fine, but I pulled back the membrane around the jelly and am holding one of the white fibers you are talking about. Pic 2 is what those white fibers turn into. Pic 3 is what the membrane and fibers look like if it just develops normally and I don’t get the jelly pouch. The outer membrane is really just a bulb sheath -edit: or rhyzome sheath- and those fibers are part of the structure the sheath. If you look at the base of the sheath you can see where that has started to come away as the bulb grew and see the fibers exposed.
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Old 06-27-2021, 07:20 PM
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It is intersting for sure. I was a bit dubious that an orchid could produce that much jelly in one single night though so I did some research and it seems the jelly does not just appear on bulbophyllum's.
For example:
Strange jelly like substance on seedling - TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms - PalmTalk

Now if that is the case then it is not the plants producing this stuff but something depositing this stuff overnight.

From more research it seems to be an unsolved mystery but the most polular theory is that it is regurgitated frog spawn from a bird, most likely a heron.

Just quoting what I found on google as a possible explanation..
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