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form blue, but I’ve been beaten over the head with “that’s
not really blue” or “that looks more like purple” way too
many times at this point. I know which battles I can win
and this is not one of them. The reality is most people will
perceive the color of a coerulea Phal. as violet from the tra-
ditional color wheel that most of us were exposed to in art
class. So I tend to think of violet as a better description of
the color of a coerulea Phalaenopsis. When placed against
a true blue hue, a coerulea form is always going to have a
purpleish tint to it. A few of us that were trying to get some
mor