Looking for Cymbidium Canaliculatum

[Cym Ladye]

I am glad to see you are having success with the immediate hybrids. They are far easier to grow than the species as they are not so touchy about having to need their exact native environment. Both Kuranda and Little Black Sambo are well worth growing!

I do not know if you have the dark form of LBS but there is a green form with maroon marking. "Cinnabar' (awarded as a canaliculatum) is one cultivar marked with dark burgundy spots. Another is 'San Leandro' with maroon centrally on the segments. Google one or the other of these cultivars and you will find some photos. There may be other green forms but I do not know if any have been mericloned. These two have not been.

Some talking heads claim LBS is "so yesterday", but I have not seen anything better to date I would want in my collection for color and presentation. "New is not always better" when it comes to orchids.