Cattleya schilleriana var. sanderiana 'Yardley'

[cday2inflorida]

I've been looking for this clone for a long time. I finally found it. I negotiated with the the seller and was told, it was mounted on cypress board and had been mounted since March of '08 and was near bloom size.
I bought it and happily awaited it's arrival.
Collecting my choice of species and then select clones or divisions is a cat and mouse game.
Anyway, the package arrived. It was a decent sized box. I opened it and noticed it was well packed. I kept unwrapping and unwrapping until I got down to this teeniney wrapped package. I opened it up and out popped what you see below. He sent me two to make up for the size is all I can guess.

Blooming sized my foot! I'll be using walker when these two mature.

Notice the butter knife as a reference