I know that in Cymbidium, there are nurseries actively pursuing peloric flowers through breeding peloric parent plants. However, the peloric forms are not always compatible, so some seedlings come out with standard flowers. From the (few/many?) that do have peloric flowers, they then select the best for meristem propagation.
I believe that it is similar in Phalaenopsis.
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Kim (Fair Orchids)
Founder of SPCOP (Society to Prevention of Cruelty to Orchid People), with the goal of barring the taxonomists from tinkering with established genera!
I am neither a 'lumper' nor a 'splitter', but I refuse to re-write millions of labels.
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