Cattleya gigas (warscewiczii) 'Frau Melanie Beyrodt'
 

First blooming of this plant for me. As beautiful today as it was in 1904.
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Stunning, As beautiful as any antique!

Awesome - one of the best

So lovely!

Wow a piece of an original wild collected plant? It has a very beautiful lip, and the white sets it off nicely! So.......?

My thoughts exactly!

Congrats on getting such a stunner!

Yes indeed. It has never been mericloned, so plants of it are inevitably divisions of the original.

Divisions appear once or twice a year on fleabay, and if you know who to ask (and have the funds to do so) it can be acquired without too much difficulty.

I didn't realize this! Very cool!

I can see this in Zelda Fitzgerald's hair!

My two warscewiczii seedlings appear to be the tastiest things in my collection to rats. They're still alive, and I'm still trapping rats.