It is in the Cattleya alliance family. There is no encyclia in the plant. Keep on doing what you're doin and flower it. Then ask everyone again because you have such a great plant from your rescue!

The purple coloration can change dramatically and might probably due to incorrect growth and fertilizer ( high phosphorus)/culture or too high of light--or all of those. Might be due to the genera as some of the laelia do exhibit red in the leaves. it is not L. rubescens. The attached photo is L. rubescens in spike last month in our greenhouse.

Jim

[QUOTE=Helen;284040]Ok, I've done more research and my label kind of looked like flava, so I checked out L. flava and found it to have several names: L. crispata, a sophronitis and also L. rupestris...now I'm thinking that I heard rubescens and maybe it was rupestris....here is an except from an article I found on the net:

Helen, your getting confused. All the names you list here are DIFFERENT plants, none are the same and none are your orchid.
The best way to find out exactly what it is, is to flower it.

referring to A Golden Guide to Orchids, page 52, it's looking to me like a Broughtonia...:hmm