Catt. ID - Orchid Board

Chubidubi · #1 10-31-2010, 06:03 PM

I've put this one on here more than a year ago. I'm posting it here again in hopes that any new person here might know the name. ANY IDEA guys?

Oscarman · #2 11-01-2010, 01:57 AM

Lovely as it is, it must sadly remain a NOID.

There are so many semi-alba cattleya hybrids in exsistence, to pick the correct one is a crap shoot. I can think of several right now that look like your wonderful plant.

To give it a best guess name would be like naming your newborn child Tess, when she is obviously a Jenna!.....true story!

PaphMadMan · #3 11-01-2010, 09:49 AM

I agree that a positive identification is highly unlikely. It is similar to C. Shellie Compton or its parent C. Stephen Oliver Fouraker if you want a starting point to search, but there are hundreds of other possibilities.

ronaldhanko · #4 11-01-2010, 12:03 PM

A positive identification is not only unlikely, it is impossible. Even if you find something that looks exactly like this, there is no way to be sure they are the same. There are just too many hybrids that look alike and that produce similar flowers and it causes confusion in the judging system, at shows, and when pieces of plants are given away or traded or sold to have uncertain identifications on them.

Chubidubi · #5 11-01-2010, 02:18 PM

THANKS for the info guys.

nikv · #6 11-04-2010, 03:24 PM

My first reaction upon seeing the photos is that this is Lc. Amahd Sheiki 'Mendenhall'. But I cannot be 100% sure of that.

CTB · #7 11-04-2010, 05:41 PM

I agree a parent is Lc. Shelly Compton, how about looking at cross with nippan "Livinza", " Touch of Class" ? I have a note on mine, lip influence Rhyncholaelia digbyana, One possible I.D. of many