SVO Cattleya hybrid

[SaraJean]

I am loving some of these SVO Cattleya hybrids

First bloom on this little thing bought last year. Slc. Purple Doll ‘Midnight Velvet’ AM/AOS x Pot. Rubescence ‘SVO’ AM/AOS, it’s a fairly small/compact grower and the color on it is gorgeous. The camera didn’t even come close to picking up the glowing, neon shades. I’m actually pretty surprised it’s so intense, I normally don’t get such nicely colored flowers that develop during a heat wave. It seems to have a pretty nice shape too for being a first bloom. The flower is fairly large, it flattened out after a few days, and developed a nice spicy, floral fragrance. These pics were taken only a day after it opened, it’s been a few weeks now and it’s holding up nicely.