What is the difference between fish roe orchid and Milan? Teach you to quickly distinguish the two flowers

1. Leaf difference

Fish roe orchid leaves are opposite, hairless, papery, and the leaf shapes include oval or obovate-elliptic, oblanceolate or obovate, and also obovate-lanceolate, about 11 to 22 cm long and about 4 to 8 cm wide, the leaf tips gradually becoming pointed, the base wedge-shaped, and the margins serrate.

Milan leaves are pinnately compound, about 5 to 12 cm long, the leaves alternate, the rachis has narrow wings, and they are obovate or oblong, the leaf tips pointed, the base wedge-shaped, both sides smooth and hairless, entire, with obvious veins.

2. Flower difference

Fish roe orchid's spikes combine into a terminal panicle, the flowers are very small, yellow-green, strongly fragrant, and the flowers are sessile.

Milan's panicle is axillary, about 5 to 10 cm long, the flowers yellow, strongly fragrant, the calyx 5-lobed, the lobes rounded, the corolla 5-petaled, oblong or nearly round.

3. Fruit difference

Fish roe orchid's is a drupe, white when mature.

Milan's fruit is a berry, ovoid or nearly spherical, about 10 to 12 mm long, and the seeds have a fleshy aril.