Cattleya, but not hybrid?
My niece went to the weekend market at the nearby Army camp Saturday and brought me this gorgeous Cattleya. This is in Thailand, and most orchids here (especially the Dendrobiums) are hybrids, so I didn't expect to be able to identify it. I started browsing through the Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia, and to my amazement found that the flower is almost exactly like the Cattleya gaskelliana. Can anyone help me confirm this? It would be really nice to have a species, although I guess it would't bloom as often as a hybrid bred for frequent blooming. My only other cattleya is actually a laelocattleya hybrid, and although Ive gotten it to start growing again it hasn't bloomed for years.
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