Chysis bractescens - color variation in one plant

[Fairorchids]

Originally Posted by DeaC

All I can say is it's stunning and I missed seeing your booth at the SEPOS show.

I did not do SEPOS this year. The show is too expensive, and they do not have enough visitors to justify the cost.

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Originally Posted by Roberta

Any chance that it is two plants, so entangled (from the beginning) that it isn't easy (or even possible without damage) to separate them? If they were entangled coming out of flask, by this time they could be inseparable.

I have a Sobralia that's something like that - I know it must be 2 plants (some of the flowers are white to light pink and others are butter-yellow) but it's one solid mass.

I discussed this one with another grower, who visited today. His first thought was a temperature difference, but the leads are just inches apart in the basket.

I also took the basket down and tried to trace the rhizomes. As far as I can tell, it is a single plant. I am not planning to repot it till 2025; at that point I will check whether that part of the plant might be separate from the rest, but it really does not look like it.