These buds popped out during my escape to Miami and opened wild and ungroomed lol. Nice dark solid blue lip and artsy petal flares. NS 14 cm.
Cattleya lueddemaniana coerulea flamea ‘Wildlings’
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Wonderful luedde!!!
id love to see that in natural light.
Leslie, I have a lueddemanniana coerulea 'Michael' selfing that was colchicine treated and the two buds should open in about a week. I was thinking this was early for lueddemanniana but the Florida AQ group and your plant certainly say that lueddemanniana can be winter just like trianae?
Luddies usually bloom in March at its peak but can range from Jan-April. A second blooming in July-Sept sometimes too.
Your lueddie sounds promising! Polyploids can surprise us.
It’s winter here so sunlight is rare. Plus outside is minus 10C lol.
harden up!
So says the voice from beautiful balmy (?) temperate Brisbane….
Yep,..............hot and humid at this time of the year in the sub-tropics/temperate zone
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'Arthur Chadwick' AM/AOS always blooms the first week of February for me.
-Patrick
OK ,So well done, this is what I have been waiting for and did not think I may ever see it. I had kept my opinion to myself, but for me the lip of lueddemanniana has always been inferior to labiata and trianae and jenmanii for that matter, but with this richer, deeper more saturated color suffusion across the lueddemanniana lip, it will be able to compete at shows for the best species cattleya in show award.
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I don't like solid lips and I think lueddemanniana is ok but the water fall pattern of mossiae almost like someone dotted a paint brush is the best
In my opinion.-Patrick
Reminds me of bearded iris.
So for Patrick, and all you other mossiae lovers here is a little New Year eye candy. This is Dr.Leslie's Cattleya mossiae (almost concolor) agreed the lip is quite nice. Just like the song "killing it softly"!
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deserves a new thread. stunning
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This is my favorite lip so far … it’s warscewiczii semialba ‘Everest’ lip.
The magenta picotee around the white ‘face’ framing the red waterfall pattern that is banked by yellow eyes, protected by the pink tube. Like art!
The magenta picotee around the white ‘face’ framing the red waterfall pattern that is banked by yellow eyes, protected by the pink tube. Like art!
Amazing Leslie! Is it a selfing from Katia?
No, it’s not from Katia. I thought that too. It’s a sib cross from Steven Christofferson.
