This is an orchid that I bought at an orchid "yard sale" last summer. It is a cross of Brassavola noodosa and Cattleyonia 'Keith Roth' (which is a cross of the two species Cattleya bicolor and Broughtonia sanguina)
The folliage is nearly identical to b. noodosa, and it has bloomed on every new growth so far. That seems to be about every 4 months. So far it has bloomed:
5/8 and 8/8 with the august blooming being the better show- about 4 growths blooming at once. The flowers last about 10 to 16 days. I would normally be a bit unhappy about that short bloom time, but since it blooms so frequently that it makes up for it!
The sketches are my trying to make sense of the genetic make up, and I drew it to try to predict what the flowers might look like. (this was before it bloomed for the first time)
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