Cattleya beaumesnil ‘parme’

[monocotman]

a french loddigesii hybrid flowering in the sunlight this morning.
I thought it may make a decent picture.
Vacherot may still be offering this clone.
Happy new year!


David

 

[abax]

Really quite beautiful. I don't grow Catts. anymore
and your photo makes me miss them.

 

[Don I]

Very nice.
Don

 

[Paphluvr]

Very pretty and, I assume, fragrant?

 

[monocotman]

It’s lightly fragrant, not like some catts,
David

 

[Ozpaph]

that is such a pretty catt.

 

[DrLeslieEe]

Beautiful.

This looks like the one that received a FCC/AOS in Puerto Rico in Feb 2018, Cattleya Beaumesnil 'Juan Jose' FCC/AOS.

I wonder if the same clone and it was a mericloned plant from Vacherot? It had 10 flowers on 2 spikes measuring 13.5 cm wide by 14.5 cm height, petals 6.8W x 8.2L cm, lip 5.5W x 7.6L cm, and sepals 3.1W x 8.0L cm. Is that similar to yours? I'm curious.

 

[monocotman]

Dr Leslie,
Dimensions of the biggest flower.
Flower is 13.2 x 14cm. Petals 5.6W x 6.3L.
These flowers are smaller than the ones you quote.
It is an old hybrid and it’s very possible that some with better growing skills than myself produced a larger plant with more and bigger flowers.
David

 

[DrLeslieEe]

Dimensions are close enough. Thanks for the measurements!