What is the coerulea color form in Phalaenopsis? I see a lot of comments these days about what is a coerulea and what is not a coerulea, and using being loosely determined by what other pigments are and are not being expressed. Ultimately I think we are looking at this incorrectly and we need to redefine what a coerulea form is.
In the genus Phalaenopsis, there are no blue pigments. There are a range of green, yellow, orange, magenta and violet pigments. It's the combination of these pigments that gives us the full range of colors that we see in Phalaenopsis. While coeruleas are sometimes referred to as "blue" Phalaenopsis, in reality they are a violet in color. But what actually makes them this violet color?