Ah, interesting to know. I’ve been researching the lineage of Earl and Bob Betts and can see how often Bow Bells shows up in their history.
With my orchid hybrid I can see the foliage closely resembles Earl ‘Imperialis’ as it has more slender pseudo bulbs and foliage. I think it resembles the foliage in the Imperialis photo that Bayard posted above.
However, the blooms on my hybrid appear less like Imperialis and more like Bob Betts or Bow Bells as the petals are not as rounded.
Some photos below of the foliage and blooms.
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Originally Posted by Jmoney
Déesse is not in the background of Bow Bells or Earl. Bow Bells is heavily in the background of Earl. Déesse hybrids can produce a small vertical magenta streak in the midline of the lips (on some bloomings).
I have asked a lot of people in the know about this faint speckling in the lips. Most, including Plato himself, thought nothing more of it, just that perhaps some recessive genes were hidden, or got turned on somehow. Jeff's opinion, and he knows a lot, is that this is mislabeled, but personally I don't think so. Until I saw Bayard's pic, I had never seen a cattleya with this pattern.
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