I grow orchids (I built a greenhouse).
Plant 87r doesn't look like an orchid, at least not the one you pictured. The VMS plant has narrow florets, the petals on the orchid are medium-wide. Orchids don't have scaly calyxes, and considering the attention given to roots in the VMS, the illustrator wouldn't have overlooked a detail as obvious and significant as those bead-like "arachnid-leg-shaped" roots.
Why did you leave the gallows character out of the word you "translated"? Do you consider it insignificant? A spaceholder? A modifier? A null?
Plant 87r doesn't look like an orchid, at least not the one you pictured. The VMS plant has narrow florets, the petals on the orchid are medium-wide. Orchids don't have scaly calyxes, and considering the attention given to roots in the VMS, the illustrator wouldn't have overlooked a detail as obvious and significant as those bead-like "arachnid-leg-shaped" roots.
Why did you leave the gallows character out of the word you "translated"? Do you consider it insignificant? A spaceholder? A modifier? A null?