It doesn't look real because...

 This blue orchid doesn’t look real because in very important ways it is not real.  It is actually a white orchid that has been infused with a “magical” substance that turns it blue, but only for one blooming season.  During the second blooming season it will revert to white.

I first saw it at a big box garden center.  I was all the way over on the far side of the garden center, but the first thought I had, even from that distance, is those can’t be real.  Still, I was drawn to them.  I mean I could not keep away.  I closely inspected every one of the dozen blue orchids, compared them to all of the other variety of orchids surrounding them, and touched them to make sure they weren’t some sort of realistic silk or plastic.  They had all of the characteristics of real orchids, but still I knew in my gut that they were somehow alien, not natural.  I didn’t have my reading glasses with me so I couldn’t read the tag that would have told me about the “magical” substance that made them blue.

Now, I like things natural.  I take plants home and try to find them a spot outside that will meet their needs without much help from me.  I don’t want plants (or other things) in my life that I have to fuss over.  In spite of being certain that these blue orchids were not natural and would probably require some fussing over, I bought one.  Then I went back and bought another.

Sometimes, even when you know you are being tricked, you take the bait.  You take the bait because, if just for a minute, you want to believe that what cannot possibly be possible is possible.