Awesome orchid, no ID Help Please!!

[cneos]

Your plant is definitely a cymbidium. From the size of the flowers and the staure of the plant itself, it looks like a standard cymbidium (compared to a miniature cymbidium). I'd check with the vendor from whom you bought it for a name - maybe he found the tag or has other plants in stock from the same collection. If not, why not call it Cymbidium Hybrid 'My Valentine'?

[Des]

Thats a well grown and well flowered Cymbidium . Still young ,so dont leave the flower spikes on for too long . treat it right and it will have even more spikes next year.

[mrobert]

If it were the SBOE plant you found it would likely have been quite $$; though I believe with their cymbidiums you get what you pay for.

[nancy]

King Arthur is pretty similar, too.
Without the tag (and many times, even with it) you just don't know fer sure...
Cheers - Nancy

[Mike O'C]

SLM,
Your orchid is a Cymbidium hybrid. The banding on the lip (i.e. that deep maroon edging on the front of the lip) would suggest a Cymbidium lowianum somewhere in the background or a Cymbidium devonianum. The upright flower spikes would be against a Cymbidium devonianum hybrid.
As a tip don't buy unnamed orchids. As we say in horse racing terms :"It costs just as much to feed a donkey as it does to feed and a champion racehorse but the champion brings home more in stake money"
Hope that the wife appreciated the thought! :-)
Keep well and kind regards
Mike

[Des]

I have a few of those donkeys in my collection, Mainly due to the winds we get here in PE, it has a nasty habit of blowing the labels out of the pots. Nowadays I cut a slit into the rim of the pot which pinches the label in place, the wind can do its thing the label does not budge
Welcome Mike , Nice have a fellow South African on the Forum

[Dorothy]

NO-IDs need love, too and if there is one that tugs at your heartstrings .. I say buy it .. but I also feel that an accurate identification of a hybrid or cross is a long shot, if not impossible (a little shorter with a species) but you also have the liberty of naming it yourself - my suggestion is that one includes the word 'NOID' (No-Id) somewhere in it's title as to distinguish it from officially named and identified orchids

[nancy]

If you will assign it the name of a known hybrid, you use the letters 'cf' before the name, from what I understand. At least, that's how it works for species.
So if you think it is probably C. Bob Betts, you'd label it Cattleya cf Bob Betts.
Regards - Nancy

[nancy]

p.s. 'cf' is an abbreviation for whatever the Latin is for "looks like"!

[Des]

We would call it Cattleya Non -scripto which I think is latin for no name, but I prefer your "cf" Idea .