Cattleya noID in bloom
 

"bloom again orchids" book seems to think its a splash petal Catt. Has an intense smell, even from a few feet away.

Sorry about the small photos, tap talk app for the iPhone seems to shrink them.

Beautiful bloom + nice fragrance = in my book it's a keeper, NOID or not !!! I have 80 species + 25 primary hybrids and 50 hybrids = 155 chids right now. I just did a trade and got an unseen Phal NOID that has variegated leaves and purple candy striped blooms and it's the 4th NOID that I have now and I'm going to keep it !!! All of us have NOIDs at one time or another that we won't part with ! I'm giving my newbie the cultivar name 'Ben' so I'll remember where I got it from ! This is his pix.

BTW, :welcomeflowers: to the forum !!!
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lol my favorite den I named noidus nonstoppus nothing wrong with a great noid

Welcome and Hello ! Sit back, relax and read postings from some of our members where you can glean precious knowledge on how to care for your orchids based on their wealth of experience...

You have a beautiful flower, even if its a NOID...and fragrant at that !

See if I can up load a bigger photo...

http://img.tapatalk.com/4643a338-1782-a9fb.jpg

absolutley georgous ....and a nice strong scent is always great ....for a great scent I would grow one with blooms that were totaly invisable to the eye ....I love going into my grow room and catch a faint whiff of this one then be working and suddenly catch the faintest trace of a scent so incredible you go wow and then not be able to find where its coming from and its gone ,then suddenly there it ias again and you stop and think Damn thats nice where is that coming from I thought I picked the last bloom from teh one with the scent for mom to wear to church ....then suddenly your staning by the one exuding the scent and it hits you full force and you look at teh bloom beside you and think ---HMMM surley not that did not have any scent yesterday bend down and snigff the bloom and almost get high from the fragrance close up and then go back thre or four times a day just to sniff it and marvel at it .

Good job and great color combination

Thanks! The fragrance was a bonus, I bought it last spring on the clearance table at a local garden center. It did have a bloom on it, so I new what I was buying but (as I'm sure you know) the fragrance was pretty much gone because the blooms where all almost spent.

lol and just think some even go the other dirction scent wise and smell quite literaly like dog poo ....just cant bring myself to grow stinkers yet but if I ever get a small g/h might build a closed off section for stinkers just because orchids are more than just blooms they are a adventure and a joy to grow as often not for the challenge they present and the level of skill growing them requires you to develop ....many growers on the OB forum manage under the most adverse conditions to grow genera that should never survive without almost lab conditions but our fellow members come up with incredible ways to do it anyways we have a impressive bunch here. And as often as not the new growers show incredible ingenuity and figure out great new ways to do things .....

Welcom to the Ob

I've got one "stinker" but it doesn't slap your face with it when you walk by and it doesn't permeate the room. You have to stick your nose right into the bloom to get the scent and I did that ONCE !!! Don't feel the urge to ever do it again ! Bulb. echinolabium is the one and I'll never give it up because the bloom is spectacular and very large !!! I forget, but I think it was 19" top to bottom !
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I have one very similar, called Lc. Purple Cascade. I wasn't sure from your pics, but is yours bifoliate? Mines strictly unifoliate, as are all the other Purple Cascades I have seen, but the bloom time is the same cause mine is just about to flower. Mine isnt really fragrant, but its supposed to be. Is yours very vigorous? Mine grows like a weed! Great catts!!

Here's a pic of last January's flowering. Sorry for the terrible pic, I took it on my Blackberry.

Btw, Lc. Purple Cascade's parents are C. Interglossa x Lc. Tokyo Magic. Interglossa is C. amethystoglossa x C. intermedia (or maybe other way around) which it seems to take after the most, cause Tokyo Magic is yellow!!

Your totally right! It does look similar to your Lc Purple Cascade and it's both unifoliate and bifoliate. In fact there ares sets of blooms on both types of bulbs ATM. Earlier this year (last month) a set of bloom was on a bifoliate bulb and last year when i bought it the blooms were on a unifoliate bulb. I've only had it about 12 months but seems to grow like a weed! Check out the aerial view, is this normal to have both uni and bifoliate bulb growth? http://img.tapatalk.com/46432bed-3a24-c45f.jpg

I havent personally had one plant bloom on uni and bifoliate bulbs, but with C. amethystoglossa and C. intermedia as grandparents, Im sure Purple Cascade could very easily do so.

Merlyn
That is a great Phal! Good score!

dont have that cross but I have several that do the unifoliate and bifoliate leads and mine do bloom on both .
C. Jalapa Angel in bloom right now two leads one unifoliate one Bifoliate. And another that I divided and lol as soon as I divided it each division popped out buds on unifoliate growths and bifoliate ...actually surprised me putting out buds on all three divisions I had made within a week and they act as if they were never touched or repotted ....

Goes to show you that being in bud doesnt mean you cant repot if they are starting new root growth and healthy

as far as noid goes ..... If I saw this at a nursery I would not blink at no name tag it would be in my cart in a flash ...especially if the scent had drawn me to it