Cattleya tenebrosa, finally!

[JScott]

Originally Posted by smweaver

Very nice flowers. Being color blind, the color combination of these is pretty much lost on me. But I do like the shape--and the fact that your plant looks to be a healthy, multi-lead example of this species. Congratulations.

It does have multi leads. Five or six. It seems to have two growth cycles. One in the winter and one in the summer. The winter growths have sheathes, but they never bloom. Only the summer growths ever bloom. I don't know if that's just what they do, or if I'm doing something wrong or what, but that has been my experience.