Prosthechea hybrid

[euplusia]

I purchased this medium sized plant because of its unusual look and vivid colours. Parents may eventually be Anacheilium cochleatum /Prosthechea cochleata and C. schilleriana, but I really don't know. Flowers do not stand with the lip uppermost (what Anacheilium means), but with the lip down like a regular Cattleya flower.

[WhiteRabbit]

Lovely!

[james mickelso]

I like this. Nice color in the lip. Hmmm. And not upside down.

[Picotee]

Very interesting flower. Nice find.

[tuvoc]

Wonderful shape and color.

Kim

[RosieC]

Really nice, I immediately thought of Prosthechea cochleata when I saw it, the lip has a lot of that look even though it's the other way up.

[RJSquirrel]

wonderful flower ...

I have some prosthechea species all marked encyclia and never questioned them. When they bloomed I could tell they were not encyclia bec all the flowers were non re-supinate(upside down) and I thought something was wrong with them

I can see the cockleshell influence in the flower and why the heavier more substantial cattleya made them fly right.

Would be very interesting if the next batch were upside down

Nice plant and flower

[samarak]

That's interesting. I wouldn't have known it had Prosthechea in it just by appearance, especially P. cochleata.

Steve

[Orchidflowerchild]

that lip patterning is lovely, but sometimes with these speculative hybrids, I wonder "what was improved here, over the species?"

Not that I fault anyone, just speaking with an eye to breeding on, where do you go from here? And to me, though opening up the lip of schilleriana was probably a primary (and successful) goal, I think the flower shape detracts from the charm of both parents, in that you lose the waxy ruffles of the schilleriana and you lose the free-form curliness of the prosthechea.

Maybe if this was done with fragrans, then it would tend toward waxier texture and fuller segments. Not that round and full should be the only goals in hybridisation, but, just I miss the nautiloid look of the prosthecea and the carved-from-polished-mahoganhy look that schilleriana can have.


-Ceci