It is called the "Queen of Cattleyas" for a very good reason.
Nothing finer then purpurata.

I can see why it is called vinicolor, looks like a rich purply Claret.

Exactly, Alice. Looked at the picture and had to run and get a glass of St. Francis!

I am still dreaming about my old L purpurata 'Treasure of Carpinteria' x 'Flamenco', I loved that plant. This was in June 2006

June 2008


I thought it was gorgeous! Then came the next Spring and as I always did, I moved my Orchids into the cage. But, for some reason that Spring we had a Slug invasion! I pretty much had to repot everything, any older medium had a slug in it. They were under rims and just voracious! I learned that coconut fiber over the drainage hole in the pot prevented them from crawling into medium. I was outside at early mornings dumping slugs into salt water.
Well, they killed that gorgeous purpurata! When I saw some reasonably priced plants at Stony Hill a few months ago, I had to try again.

It is quite obvious why you loved that plant! That is just a wonderful job in growing it and flowering it.
Color me envious!!!
Just green with envy!

The plant is so beautifully grown, I would take that first photo and have it printed on canvas and hang it on the wall.

Orchid Species gone extinct Re: Phy.Org
" Rare Orchid of the falls" Species declared extinct in th world.
Re Phy.Org Suxicolella Danisae" 2018 Botonicle
Denise Molmou
Prabhi S
Note Check the spelling and the content

thanks! I am glad one can always take pictures to hold on to something!

@Prabhisetty
can you be more specific? I am trying to figure out which Orchid species you are talking about, but I am not finding it.

Ursula said: @Prabhisetty
can you be more specific? I am trying to figure out which Orchid species you are talking about, but I am not finding it.

I think it was published in Kew Bulletin, The paper features ,one of which is Saxicoella ' denieae or Denise' Saxicolella..This information is from Phys. Org.
I hope the information would be helpful.
Prabhi S

Argh, very annoying! I had watched this thread and for some reason it un-watched. It's been happening to my brother too. He mentioned it first and it got me to thinking why I haven't seen any posts from this thread (which is typically very active.)

Abigail, if you add a post, as you just did, it /this thread should appear automatically in your watch list.

This thread changes each month and if you have not posted you have to "watch" again.

I can't find the genus Saxicoella.

Denise Saxicoella is not a valid name either. "Denise" is not an orchid genus.
Could Saxicoella be the species name??? Denise is likely a clonal name.

'Something' saxicoella 'Denise'
This is why orchid names are so important. Spelling is vital.

How about this one
https://www.environment.nsw.go...
Pterostylis saxicola?

or Caladenia saxicola
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"Cala Denieae saxicola" or similar......? But it is not endangered or extinct.

Oh my, there is a group of orchids that I never heard of. What little I saw indicated very little success cultivating any of the species.
Interesting to say the least.

I wonder how much remains undiscovered or unknown from Australia?

Ursula said: Abigail, if you add a post, as you just did, it /this thread should appear automatically in your watch list.

I pressed watch thread again today, and yet it didn't pop up in my thread watcher from your guys' recent posts. I don't know why it's not on my watch thread.

Abigail, you might want to post your question in Site talk. Surely someone there will help you!

You're right. But now it seems to be working!