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Laelia lindleyana

Discussion in 'Orchid Species' started by tenman, Jan 12, 2012.

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  1. tenman

    tenman Well-Known Member

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    Not often seen, this is a plant originally collected many, many years ago which I received as an urgent care patient, about five years ago. It was dying, down to two 2" tall spindly growths. It is finally healthy enough to bloom; flower is about 4" across, another bud coming. It is in a 3' clay pot in a mix of half hand-chopped sphagnum and half aliflor clay pelllets like my rupicolous laelias, and grows in high light with cool autumns with them.
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    This is a nice flower, very pretty. Probably not often seen as its now known as Cattleya intermedia according to Kew list of Monocots.
     
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    Nope. It was described twice, though it is now considered a natural hybrid between a brassavola and C.intermedia.