Cattleya speciosissima 'Stanley'
 

Just bloomed for me. Fragrant. Huge flowers. When grow well flowers can reach 8".

Beautiful. One of my favourite species (syn: C. lueddemaniana).

There exist a controversy in South America that the true 'Stanleyi' cultivar has a different lip (a yellow centre with lavender waterfall markings, not solid like this one). This one they would call the 'Cerro Verde' cultivar, one that has a solid magenta lip and aquinated tepals (mini magenta flares on the tips of the petals and sometimes sepals). Just a trivia bit of historical provenance.


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Very nice indeed.

Gorgeous!

I have to agree with Leslie on the cultivar name....

Beautiful as it is controversial!

What a real beauty!!!!

Thanks Leslie! Interesting to know.

Wow that can get big. So gorgeous.

nice plant, but it is not Stanleyi, and the pictured one is not a pure lueddemanniana (valid name) either. (speciossisima is a synonym for Lueddemanniana)

edit, this is the real Stanleyi , and it also matchs the painting that was done when the plant was awarded in 1901, by the RHS (if memory serves me well with the date)

http://www.ma.ccnw.ne.jp/orchids-555/images/img23.jpg

what was said earlier is correct the plant pictured is likely the Cerro verde. or one of its many offprings.

i beleive the correct name for that plant would be C. carmen (lueddemanniana x warscewiczii) (google cattleya carmen)