A 'different' Cattleya flower
Late last year Fred Clarke posted some first bloom seedlings on Ebay, which had a different color combination (spots on red/orange flowers with a splash).
I bought 10 seedlings of this new cross = Cattleya (Cosmic Angel x Katherine Clarkson), and has just had the first one bloom. While this plant did not pick up the spots, it has a lip, which is fully unfolded. This creates a somewhat unusual look:
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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.
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