Flower mutation - Lc Longriver Compton
This is a new flower from the same Lc. Longriver Compton that I posted earlier.
This one flower is exhibiting a weird mutation. The pretty, earlier blooms are in the background and look like they are mocking the mutant:
Everything is out of order.
1. There are no sepals in the 12, 4 and 8 o'clock positions.
2. There is a sepal in the 6 o'clock position, where the labellum should have been.
3. The "petals" are in the 12, 4 and 8 o'clock positions.
4. There is no labellum.
Another way to look at it: The column rotated 180 degrees, and lost the two sepals at the 4 and 8 o'clock positions. And the labellum is reverse-peloric.
I hope this is just a one-time fluke and not a genetic disorder of the plant. It would be a waste to compost this lovely.
Compared to a "normal" flower on the first pseudobulb:
I think the flowers from the first pseudobulb used up all the "juice" and the later blooms ended up as runts lol.
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