Identification and Stability of Reed Butterfly

In today's orchid world, everyone wants to have a high-taste butterfly, especially the core butterfly and the multi-petaled butterfly, but its variability is elusive. Put aside the orchid boundary to become famous butterfly flower, once new, it is often difficult to choose its taste and stability, especially for beginners. The author does not dare to say old, occasionally have a small gain, to seek proof.

All or any part of the petals of orchids evolve into lip petals, which is a tongue phenomenon, which is called butterfly flowers. A variation of the genus Orchid.

Where the orchid is full of tongue petals, it is a butterfly (three-star butterfly).

Some of the variations such as core butterfly and multi-petaloid butterfly appear accidentally, the character part is fixed, the next year does not reappear, some characters are fixed, and the newly propagated grass buds are also changed.

To identify whether it is really a butterfly, the key is to look at the butterfly phenomenon of holding the valve:

1. All the flaps must be butterfly.

2. The butterfly part should be the real flap of the tongue.

3. There should be brightly colored patches or spots in the valved part of the tongue (except vegetarian butterflies).

Some are called core butterflies, which seem to have three tongues, but if you look carefully, you can see that the holding valve is no different from the normal one, and there is no obvious tongue change on the holding valve, only some moss-like spots on the valve. This kind of "butterfly", commonly known as "flower face", is not a real core butterfly.

The emergence and stability of butterfly is still a mystery.

Among butterfly flowers, the most unstable ones are core butterflies and multi-petaled butterflies, especially orchids.

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1. Mutilated nose: this is an important sign of the stability of butterflies and butterflies. Nose remnant has two heads, small head, columnar head (match head), adhesion head, etc., of which the most valuable is that the nose becomes columnar, small is the best. If the nose is normal, the butterfly is most likely not to appear the following year.

2. Symmetry: the lingual part of the two-clasped flap should be symmetrical. The disorderly and asymmetrical lip butterfly is mostly accidental.

3. Uniform arrangement: multi-petal butterfly flowers, except for each part, emphasize that the butterfly petals are arranged symmetrically and evenly.

4. The polyglossal butterfly also emphasizes the variation of the nose, with the small, columnar nose at the top.

5. The labial part should be under the foot, on the top, and penetrate, which is also one of the criteria for judging the quality of butterfly flowers.

Of course, these are not absolute, but must still be combined with other references, such as grass type (strange grass, butterfly grass, dragon grass, etc.), multi-flower (strange butterfly) common plant, as well as personal orchid raising experience and experience.

In short, the butterfly is a mystery, who guessed thoroughly, who will have.