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09-20-2016, 03:29 AM
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Cattleya speciosissima 'Stanley'
Just bloomed for me. Fragrant. Huge flowers. When grow well flowers can reach 8".
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09-20-2016, 06:23 AM
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Beautiful. One of my favourite species (syn: C. lueddemaniana).
There exist a controversy in South America that the true 'Stanleyi' cultivar has a different lip (a yellow centre with lavender waterfall markings, not solid like this one). This one they would call the 'Cerro Verde' cultivar, one that has a solid magenta lip and aquinated tepals (mini magenta flares on the tips of the petals and sometimes sepals). Just a trivia bit of historical provenance.
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09-20-2016, 11:30 AM
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Very nice indeed.
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09-20-2016, 11:32 AM
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Gorgeous!
I have to agree with Leslie on the cultivar name....
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09-20-2016, 02:01 PM
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Beautiful as it is controversial!
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09-20-2016, 02:54 PM
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That's gorgeous!!! 
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09-20-2016, 03:04 PM
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What a real beauty!!!!
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09-20-2016, 05:36 PM
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Thanks Leslie! Interesting to know.
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09-21-2016, 12:37 PM
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Wow that can get big. So gorgeous.
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09-30-2016, 11:26 PM
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nice plant, but it is not Stanleyi, and the pictured one is not a pure lueddemanniana (valid name) either. (speciossisima is a synonym for Lueddemanniana)
edit, this is the real Stanleyi , and it also matchs the painting that was done when the plant was awarded in 1901, by the RHS (if memory serves me well with the date)
http://www.ma.ccnw.ne.jp/orchids-555/images/img23.jpg
what was said earlier is correct the plant pictured is likely the Cerro verde. or one of its many offprings.
i beleive the correct name for that plant would be C. carmen (lueddemanniana x warscewiczii) (google cattleya carmen)
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