BLC with probable partial tag - interpretation appreciated
 

Hi folks.

I had a big BLC flower for the first time. No tag. I looked through the shadehouses and came across a very similar looking plant (same size, same redish canes etc) that had a tag. I have multiples of most plants by the way.

Having read what I can of the tag it seems a likely fit (given the Lucky Strike). So as far as I can make out the tag reads:

CULMINANT LA
TUILERI??O
X
LUCKY STRIKE UIRAPONE

Having started with the RHS orchid register, there is a Catt. Culminant and a BLC Lucky Strike. There is nothing with a grex name that has "tuile" in it. There is however a "uirapuru" - Catt Orquidaceas's Uirapuru (though I suspect my plant was around well before the 2005 registration of the Uirapuru).

Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Aus.

Could it be C. Culminant 'La Tuilerie' x Rlc Lucky Strike 'Virapongse'? I found these two in Orchids Wiz but Orchid Wiz had no name for the cross.

Carrie is right.

Lc. Culminant 'La Tuilerie' X Rlc. Lucky Strike

(Laeliocattleya X Rhyncholaeliocattleya)

* the parent Lucky Strike have clearly manifested on your flower picture and so far these are the true names of the parents of your orchid (you are lucky to have a tag)

with the new Cattleya renamings, chances are: they are now named:

Cattleya Culminant 'La Tuilerie' X Cattleya Lucky Strike

I may be wrong

C. Culminant 'La Tuilerie' AM/AOS x Rlc. Lucky Strike... that much is for sure, with correct current terminology. So your plant is an unregistered Rlc. hybrid. Virapone and some similar spellings could be a Southeast Asian name, but I can't find any mention of it as a clonal name for Rlc. Lucky Strike, so Rlc. Lucky Strike 'Virapone' is just a guess.

There is an orchid:

Rlc. Lucky Strike 'Chaimohgkoltrakul' AM/CST

Created by Mr. Moriyasu Akatsuka of Hawaii

but I would advice you to just let it remain:

Rlc. Lucky Strike

until it is properly registered and has a name

Great flowers and very good answers. Cattleya or Lc. Culminant was bred by Vacherot in Paris in 1957, the clonal name 'La Tuilerie' means brick factory. I grow a division of this plant.
Rhyncholaeliocattleya or Brassocattleya Lucky Strike was bred by Sanders 1966 from famous Memoria Crispin Rosales and Bonanza (Bracey). I cannot tell its clonal name nor did I find this hybrid registered.
But the result is excellent as exspected.

Thank you all for your assistance, I can't tell you how much I appreciate your having helped me with the appropriate names. This one is on my desk at the moment and it smells great.

Also, I appreciate how lucky I am to have a name on a similar looking orchid that also reflects the obvious Lucky Strike influence and fits the picture. That happens all too rarely. Luckily the red stems gave it away, but unfortunately I only seem to have two of this. In a few years, I might have enough pieces to satisfy myself.

I'm stoked, thank you very much for your time and efforts.

Cheers,
Aus.

---------- Post added at 09:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:09 PM ----------

Just mentioning in passing, I have a bunch of pieces of Mem Crispin Rosales, quite old crosses I believe... But they have just hit second place on the list of my favourite BLCs in my collection. This one beats it IMO - the purple velvetish labellum you just want to pat and the perfume is less "chemically" (yep, I made up a word there I think).

So sweet...

Cheers,
Aus.