Awarded in 2015 with an AM of 81 points, this is a division I acquired in 2014 from Canaima. It took 2 years to establish and finally bloomed this week in time for Christmas 2016.
Two crisp white flowers, like an alba ('albo'), except with a darker maroon stripes hidden inside the throat. These stripes create a 'round' shape, aptly called oculata, meaning an eye. Thus, the horticultural variety called albo-oculata, as it is not a pure alba.
The substance is pretty hard compared to the actually award description, which was medium.
At almost 13 cm, it is still one centimetre short of the awarded division at 14 cm. I figured it may be due that it's first bloom from establishing and will need to grow stronger ... but the shape is incredible !!!
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Cattleya labiata albo-oculata 'Canaima's Monica' AM/AOS
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