My first 2012 bloom, What is it? - Orchid Board

Shibumi · #1 01-16-2012, 03:27 PM

I got this beauty in a garage sale without a tag. Can somebody Id it? Thanks

Cavs n' Orchids · #2 01-16-2012, 03:59 PM

Its a beautiful Cattleya. Looks like Potinara Twenty-Four Carat

PaphMadMan · #3 01-16-2012, 04:53 PM

I does indeed look like Potinara (or Rhyncattleanthe) Twentyfour Carat (no hyphen) or its offspring Pot./Rth. Free Spirit where the slight reddish flare in the lip would be more common, or many others. With any Catt NoID the best you can say is 'looks like'. Even with a distinctive clone and a 'perfect' picture match you can still be wrong. A lovely yellow no matter what.

Zoi2 · #4 01-16-2012, 11:02 PM

Hello and welcome to the OB, you've a lovely catt.
Joann

camille1585 · #5 01-17-2012, 04:19 AM

What a cutie!! Can't believe that you found it at a garage sale!

Shibumi · #6 01-20-2012, 08:40 PM

Thanks everybody. I actually found around 70 orchids in a garage sale. The person was going to move out of the state and didn't have time to move them and he was not taking care of them anyway. I paid around a dollar per orchid.

lucky me

Many of them don't have a name but I don't care I love the flowers anyway. I just to try to know around what it could be and like that be able to take care of them. Soo any tips are welcome

Cavs n' Orchids · #7 01-20-2012, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Shibumi

Thanks everybody. I actually found around 70 orchids in a garage sale. The person was going to move out of the state and didn't have time to move them and he was not taking care of them anyway. I paid around a dollar per orchid.

lucky me

Many of them don't have a name but I don't care I love the flowers anyway. I just to try to know around what it could be and like that be able to take care of them. Soo any tips are welcome

Wow!!! What a score!!! I am very jealous. Catts are hard to come by where I am. And for that price, who cares about an ID tag! I have paid $40 or more for ones with a tag, only to have them wrongly labled. Its the plant and flowers we enjoy anyways, not a piece of plastic with some letters on it! lol. Good Growing!!

calypsoB · #8 01-21-2012, 12:54 AM

maybe it has some of this in the parentage?:Chyong Guu Chaffinch

it looks as though it has some red on the lip and the shape/colour seems similar...

Merlyn · #9 01-21-2012, 01:32 AM

And YES, it's in the Cattleya alliance.