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title: "the most $$$ plant i’ve ever bought 😬😬 but how GORGEOUS is she! And…"
description: "the most $$$ plant i’ve ever bought 😬😬 but how GORGEOUS is she! And you gotta show up when your fav local plant shops are vulnerable enough to reach out for…"
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community: "Show your plants"
author: "Richelle"
published: "2026-09-19T02:58:14.342591Z"
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# the most $$$ plant i’ve ever bought 😬😬 but how GORGEOUS is she! And…

_Posted by Richelle on 2026-09-19_

the most $$$ plant i’ve ever bought 😬😬 but how GORGEOUS is she! And you gotta show up when your fav local plant shops are vulnerable enough to reach out for support!!

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## 4 comments

### Waspinator commented on 2026-09-19

Love it! My mom also got a sharry baby. It looked normal at the orchid show but turned out to be very, very tall when we got it home. We also got two ruth's rainbows at a semi hydro class (they're relatives of sharry baby, but with a more cherry vanilla scent instead of chocolate)

#### Brittany replied on 2026-09-21

What?! Tell me more about these delicious scents!

#### Waspinator replied on 2026-09-21

Orchids often have scents in the vanilla to chocolate range because natural vanilla scent/flavoring is made by orchids (just a different species group, that makes a lot more vanillin.) Sharry baby is very popular because it actually does smell like chocolate (I've found that with oncidiums, you may have to get close to the flower to smell it.) I've never smelled the ruth's rainbow because mine are not yet in bloom. So far my favorite orchid scent is a mini species called microterangis harotiana, that has a cinnamony-spicy scent. Some groups of orchids are mostly pollinated by moths, so while their scent is very strong, you'd only smell it at night. There's also bulbophyllums, where you probably want non-fragrant because those smell like rotting meat to attract flies as pollinators.

### Tracy Lee commented on 2026-09-19

🥰🥰💚💚

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