RHH's photos with the keyword: mutation

This is another photo of Epipactis gigantea, the Stream Orchid or Chatterbox, but in this case a double flower. There are two lips (the orange-brown parts at the bottom of the flower) , two columns (the yellow hooked pieces inside the flower) and four petals (the flat pink parts at the top of the flower). This is a mutation but probably not permanent since there was only this one of several flowers on the plant that looked like this, but interesting nevertheless. It was photographed in Olympic National Park.

This is a peloric form of the cross of Laelia (now Sophronitis) pumila and Cattleya intermedia. Peloric orchids are mutations - flower in which the petals take the form of the lip. Some people like them, others view them as freaks.