Catasetum pileatum

[Bruno De Toni]

Very nice specimen, I agree with Ramon one of the parents must be imperial. The red spots on the petals highligths the beauty of the display. I have now a doubt, some pileatums give more than 10 flowers on one spike and others (like this one) no more than six or seven under same cultural conditions and strenght. I guess that those plants who gives you less flowers are the ones with strong macrocarpums genes in it, on the other hands the more flower prolific are pure pileatums.