I don't expect an ID, just thought I'd share 'Jumbo". I got this last winter at a yard sale for $1. The lady who owned it was getting to the point she couldn't care for her plants anymore. I went to buy some pots, but she wanted this one to go 'to a good home'- she said she'd had it 40+/- years. I was wondering of it was C. bowringiana at first. Bifoliate, tall gangly clubby psuedobulbs about 2 feet tall. This is the first sheath, there are several more to go and one looks like there's at least 6 buds in there. Flowers are between 4"-5". Might be a closeup or even F1 bowringiana I guess.
Hard to capture the color- I'd call it a coerula, it's a pale bluish lavender. Sweet 'orchid' fragrance.
I don't usually get or keep NOIDs, but Jumbo grew on me. It seems to like it here, it threw out 7 new growths this spring. Maybe I'll keep it. I don't have any other blue cats.
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