PATSP is a long-winded, intermittently humorous blog which is mostly about houseplants, particularly Anthuriums and Schlumbergeras.
This one's a nice, dignified, respectable-type Paphiopedilum. Nothing too out of the ordinary, though the petals (or are these sepals? I can never remember. . . .) are maybe a little narrower than usual for a paph.
.png)
Photos on this blog attributed to mr_subjunctive are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. All other photos retain the licensing preferences of their owners and require permission for reuse. Contact mr_subjunctive for help in locating the sources for other photos.
Text on this blog: all rights reserved. Text may not be duplicated by any means without permission of its author, who is actually pretty easygoing under most circumstances and will probably say okey-dokey if you ask to reproduce something (but you still have to ask, and credit mr_subjunctive as the author of the excerpted part).
Posts
2 comments:
The lip/pouch/slipper and the side structures are the petals. The sepals are the dorsal structure and the two small structures found on either side of the area where the lip is attached to the rest of the flower. The petals are always the inner three floral structures and the sepals the outer three. This image will likely make more sense:
http://www.ctu.edu.vn/~dvxe/Hoa%20Lan/Doc%20on%20web/Orchid%20Anatomy_files/anatomy_paphiopedilum.jpeg
Paul:
I got confused by this particular one, because the way the photograph lines everything up, the two non-lip petals are pointing where I would expect sepals to point.
Post a Comment