Hello, fellow orchid lovers and enthusiasts! Thank you so much for having me. I need help identifying a Cattleya, or at least that's what my late grandfather called it. My grandfather was an avid orchid grower and I'm the only one in the family who seemed to have picked up his hobby. I've been a gardener my whole life, but I'm relatively new to cultivating tropical orchids.
The Cattleya pictured below is probably close to a hundred years old and it's the lone survivor in my grandfather's collection. Most of his orchids died after he passed away since no one knew how to care for them. His last Cattleya currently resides in the Philippines and I plan to bring a piece of it back with me to Canada someday.
However, it does bother me that I don't know which species or hybrid it is or even if it's a Cattleya at all. As a plant biologist, I have this compulsive need to know all of my plants' scientific names. I've tried Google Image search and it came back as Cattleya purpurata, but looks nothing like the results I got. Any help in identifying this beauty would be greatly appreciated
Need help identifying a Cattleya
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