Spotted Cattleyas, 2019, 2020 & 2021
I think I have posted on this subject before. Here are 3 flowers, from left to right:
C. loddigesii
This is a mature plant, which I traded for. I knew it was going to carry some spots, but to my great surprise it is also a 4N.
C. Caudebec 'Linwood' (4N) AM/AOS
I had this plant pre-freeze. I recently visited Waldor Orchids, and re-acquired this clone. Since this plant is just barely blooming size, it only produced 4 flowers on this spike (I bloomed it's predecessor with up to 11 flowers per spike).
(Rlc. Sun Spots 'Solar Spots' x C. Katherine Clarkson 'SVO' HCC/AOS)
This is the latest spotted breeding from Fred Clarke (Sunset Valley Orchids). This flower does not have perfect shape, but it is much larger than anything I have seen previously, and the spots are well distributed.
While I usually do not breed with Cattleyas, I could not resist pollinating the loddigesii with the Caudebec.
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Kim (Fair Orchids)
Founder of SPCOP (Society to Prevention of Cruelty to Orchid People), with the goal of barring the taxonomists from tinkering with established genera!
I am neither a 'lumper' nor a 'splitter', but I refuse to re-write millions of labels.
Last edited by Fairorchids; 09-01-2021 at 06:53 AM..
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