Cattleya leopoldi f. peloric albino - Orchid Board

Rosim_in_BR · #1 11-10-2008, 10:09 PM

Amazing surprise, this really rare albino form with three lips flowered for me this week. A few years ago I bought several seedlings of peloric C. leopoldi sib. This is the first seedling to show its flowers and I was fortunate to get an albino with three lips! Apparently, taking into account this one, there are only two clones with these characteristics. Lucky me!

Close up of the flower:
Cattleya leopoldii f. trilabelo albino on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Plant and flower:
Cattleya leolpoldii f. trilabelo albino on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Frdemetr · #2 11-11-2008, 09:13 AM

Hi Mauro! Congrats! Carlos Gomes "tells the miracle but not the Saint" (I don't know if this statment has any meaning in english!) and posted YOUR pic in the "Mundo Orquidófilo" brazilian orchid list!
You will talk about L purpurata next saturday in "Orquidário Morumby", right? I live near this orchid shop (it's not a real nursery....) and I'll be there! I hope you will use your own purpuratas to give the class!

cb977 · #3 11-11-2008, 09:15 AM

Congrats Mauro...lucky you indeed!

Rosim_in_BR · #4 11-11-2008, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by cb977

Congrats Mauro...lucky you indeed!

Thanks, Susanne! I really am glad I got this rare flower!

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Originally Posted by Frdemetr

Hi Mauro! Congrats! Carlos Gomes "tells the miracle but not the Saint" (I don't know if this statment has any meaning in english!) and posted YOUR pic in the "Mundo Orquidófilo" brazilian orchid list!
You will talk about L purpurata next saturday in "Orquidário Morumby", right? I live near this orchid shop (it's not a real nursery....) and I'll be there! I hope you will use your own purpuratas to give the class!

Hi Frederico! Yes, I'll be talking about Laelia purpurata next Saturday at Orquidário Morumby and we can meet there, if you go! That would be nice!
Ah, so he posted my picture in the 'Mundo Orquidófilo' list? I did know he had done that, but not where on the Internet! I was visiting Geraldo Pato in Taubaté last Saturday and he told me something about having seen the flower on the Internet posted by Carlos Gomes. Carlos had asked me to see the flower, considering it is really rare, and I sent him the photo. Well, he is fast with the trigger!!

isurus79 · #5 11-11-2008, 03:39 PM

Thats quite a find for you Mauro. Thats one of the great things about buying seedlings, you always have a chance of getting something really spectacular!

Frdemetr · #6 11-11-2008, 07:43 PM

Hi Mauro! There are people in "Mundo Orquidófilo" asking for a clone of your plant! See you saturday!

DebsC · #7 11-11-2008, 09:57 PM

Mauro, I'm so very happy and excited for you!!! Congratulations!!!

I can tell this flower is really special just by looking a it and I have looked at it a long time.

Please don't laugh, but I can't see 3 lips! Sorry!

Can everyone else here see 3 of them? Is it only me that can't see them?

Rosim_in_BR · #8 11-11-2008, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by DebsC

Mauro, I'm so very happy and excited for you!!! Congratulations!!!

I can tell this flower is really special just by looking a it and I have looked at it a long time.

Please don't laugh, but I can't see 3 lips! Sorry!

Can everyone else here see 3 of them? Is it only me that can't see them?

I would never laugh, Debs. It is nice that you have asked because this possibly is in the head of many other OBoarders. I am posting below a montage with the regular Cattleya leopoldi and the peloric albino form for you to assess the extension of the mutation. In the peloric form the petals attempt to imitate the lip conformation and this is the reason why the petals are so large. The three sides of the lip are also well defined in the petals as can be seen in the photo below. The whitish color seen in the petals is an attempt to repeat the white of the lip (only green would be the normal in the petals of the regular albino variety).

DebsC · #9 11-13-2008, 12:01 AM

Thank you for your graciousness, Mauro. I think I was looking for three layers of lips, one on top of the other!

Thanks to your picture and explanation, I think I do understand. I can see where you'd be very fortunate to have picked this seedling!!

Thanks again for taking the time to explain this.

DebsC · #10 11-13-2008, 12:29 AM

Thank you for your graciousness, Mauro. I think I was looking for three layers of lips, one on top of the other!

Thanks to your picture and explanation, I think I do understand. I can see where you'd be very fortunate to have picked this seedling!!

Thanks again for taking the time to explain this.