Cattleya warnerii amoena 'Dona Lena' x amesiana 'Memoria Roberto Kautsky'

[No-Pro-mwa]

Stunning.

[NeofinetiaCanada2014]

Both amoena and amesiana are the lightest shades of pink in white varieties. These colour forms are present in most of the labiate cattleyas. Interesting that the crossing of the two produces mostly darker pink flowers (back to original typical or tipo forms). I would expect more of the same light pinks but not in this case. Beautiful nonetheless!


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[ThePinkCucumber]

Gorgeous!

[naoki]

Originally Posted by NeofinetiaCanada2014

Interesting that the crossing of the two produces mostly darker pink flowers (back to original typical or tipo forms). I would expect more of the same light pinks but not in this case.

I also thought interesting. This kind of things can happen with crossing of 2 alba. This indicates that the genetic mechanisms of the paler color in the two parents differ, and they are recessive.

More technically, it is a form of genetic complementation.

[NeofinetiaCanada2014]

Interesting!


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[naoki]

Hmm, this one is still flowering in a wrong time of the year. It bloomed a little earlier (Aug 25) than last year (Sept 15). But it hasn't adjusted the clock to the northern hemisphere. I wonder if it is actually C. labiata. My plants do start to grow roots after blooming like C. warneri, though. We'll see when it will flower next year.

The color difference is partly due to the lighting, but it seems a bit paler this year than last year.


Cattleya warneri amoena 'Dona Lena' x amesiana 'Memoria Roberto Kautsky' on Flickr

[Leslie]

The warneriis up here flower later for some reason. My warneri coerulea 'ClownFace' is budding now. It should have bloom in May but twice it's blooming in the fall. There's no double sheath and it's follows the growing/rooting pattern of the warneriis. Perhaps next year they will get their act together! Lol


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[Tindomul]

That's gorgeous!!!

[naoki]

This plant flowered in the fall of 2015 and 2016 (the first 2 years after import). But it started to flower in the normal time (spring) in 2018 and 2019. I forgot to record it in 2017, or it didn't flower. So it did take 2-3 years to change its growth/flowering schedule. I've heard that the longer pseudobulb may indicate that the plant wants a little more light (I did reduce the intensity recently). But it produced more flowers (5 flowers) this year, and the size of flowers seems to be a bit bigger!

[isurus79]

That flower has filled in quite nicely! Congrats!