Online resources: amethystina not amethystoglossum

[Leucadian]

Just a note here to say how much I appreciate the info shared here, and to plug my other two go-to sources: Jay Pfahl's orchidspecies.com, and Blue Nanta orchidroots.org, and of course google.

I was going to complain like this:
"I bought a little cattleya over the weekend, identified as 'C. intermedia v. amethystoglossum' but the longest pb is only 11cm. It looks like a C. intermedia, but the v. amethystoglossum has me stumped. Any ideas what this will look like when it blooms? (Not going to happen anytime soon: no new growths.)"

Well, I looked it up on orchidspecies.com, and discovered that I had mis-read the tag as amethystoglossum, when it was pretty clearly -tina. My vendor had it right, and I should have been more careful. In 5 minutes I had my answer.

Stewart

[Roberta]

Cattleya intermedia f. amethystina ... I have one. Here is the photo from my website. Quite pretty.http://orchidcentral.org/Images/Catt...methystina.jpg
I got mine from Andy's Orchids, on a stick that it was already outgrowing. I tied the mount to a small tree-fern trunk, and it has grown completely off the old mount, is going for the new one vigorously. So I am hoping that it gets a bit larger, it is a very modest-sized plant.