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Rhyncholaelia glauca opened the first bloom of the season. The flower has a very pretty scent at sundown.


Ascocentrum christensonianum starts up again -


Lc. Mary Elizabeth Bohn 'Royal Flare' is showing off some more. It's full sun for this one or it produces floppy growth.

Great start! How old is your Rhyncholaelia? I'm asking because I got a tiny one last summer that is putting out a new growth of some kind.

Carol, I bought it around 2003, it bloomed in 2005 for the first time for me. It was still a small plant then, here is a pic from 2005.

C. Beaufort x Blc. Sunset Bay.
C. Claudebec x Lulu (i think) just opened and will go pinker with age.

Thanks, Ursula!

Pretty Catts, Bree!

You are welcome, Carol!
And thanks so much, Bree! Your Catts are beautiful!

That's really amazing to see how much your Rhyncholaelia glauca has grown since you
acquired it , Ursula..it's an interesting flower.
Bree, your C. Beaufort x Blc. Sunset Bay has such a cheery color combo..love that red ruffle!

I think you could consider that Rhyncholaelia glauca a specimen plant now. It looks so big and beautiful. Good growing, Ursula! Also great color on the Ascocentrum. I don't think any of my Vanda types are in spike now. Phals and Dens are spiking for me at the moment.

Bree, both are beauties but I am especially fond of the Claudebec cross.

Jim

on the caudebec x.
Ascocentrum christensonianum is wonderful!

Specimen you say.... thanks!
About the C. Caudebec x Lulu - it is registered/ listed as Cattleya Caudabec Candy, but perhaps that might be C. Caudebec Candy. ( e instead of a) . Kathy might be able to look it up for us?
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/horticu...

Yes it's C. Caudebec 'Candy'.

Thanks Kathy. But without '...', right?

Oops. There was either an error on the photos in OrchidWiz or there is a C. Caudebec 'Candy' that isn't a cross. I did the cross now and it is C.Caudabec Candy with an a, as you originally posted.

So the RHS didn't misspell! That's a good thing.
Bree, your pretty hybrid has a name: C. Caudabec Candy.

Thanks guys! Yeah sorry i should have added there names...this yellow one is called Rlc. Kat E- Sun.

Hey can someone tell me what came first Cattleya Aclandiae, C. Lulu or C. Caudebec, which is the cross of which? Surely at least ones in the others.
I think my orchids C. Caudebec x Lulu but a friend keeps saying 'its just like Aclandiae' which is in this cross somewhere isn't it? thanks!

Cattleya aclandiae is a species, not a hybrid. One needs to look at the whole picture to see if and at what point aclandiae enters into the parentage.

Cattleya Caudabec Candy is Caudebec x Cattleya Lulu as I gave already above
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/horticu...

Cattleya Lulu is C. Brabantiae x Penny Kuroda
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/horticu...

Cattleya Brabantiae is aclandiae x loddigesii
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/horticu...

Cattleya Caudebec is Cattleya Sophia Martin x Cattleya Penny Kuroda.
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/horticu...

Now the parentage of Penny Kuroda is easily tracked:
http://www.orchid.or.jp/orchid...

Tracking Cattleya Sophia Martin:
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/horticu...
C. guttata x C. Summer Stars

Summer Stars is:
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/horticu...
and so on, you can track backwards until you come to the primary cross.

beautiful Orchids everyone

Here are mine for now:

purple Epidendrum radicans (in greenhouse)




Vanda terete 'Diana' (in greenhouse)




Bamboo Orchid (in hoop house)





Epidendrum 'Pacific Glory'

Wish I could grow that Arundina graminifolia (bamboo orchid)!

Very pretty, GT!
Love the Arundina too! Very nice Vanda!