This primary Cattleya hybrid was not registered until 2020 by A. Black and I can find no online flower photos. I don’t know the cultivars used for the registered plant but Orchids Limited made the cross using coerulea cultivars (maxima coerulea ‘Petite Blue Dancer’ x lueddemanniana coerulea ‘Blue Tinted Glasses’) and the first bloom of my plant from this cross is shown next.
The growth had only one bloom and I think it has mostly maxima characteristics. The column lacks the lueddemanniana wings, the yellow stripe down the labellum is maxima, and the configuration of petals and sepals is more maxima than lueddemanniana. The flower color is light magenta, not coerulea. The natural horizontal width of the flower is about 11 cm because the petals reflex forward, but the natural vertical height of the flower is 17 cm because of a long, vertical dorsal sepal. The blooming growth is about 13 cm from base to the top of the pseudobulb. The plant and flower may grow larger as the plant matures, but I don’t think the color will change.
Genes for Cattleya color are complicated. There are multiple genes, often recessive, that create a color form. Lacking detailed genetic analysis to identify color genes, breeders can only accumulate knowledge over many years from a “guess and check” method.
The growth had only one bloom and I think it has mostly maxima characteristics. The column lacks the lueddemanniana wings, the yellow stripe down the labellum is maxima, and the configuration of petals and sepals is more maxima than lueddemanniana. The flower color is light magenta, not coerulea. The natural horizontal width of the flower is about 11 cm because the petals reflex forward, but the natural vertical height of the flower is 17 cm because of a long, vertical dorsal sepal. The blooming growth is about 13 cm from base to the top of the pseudobulb. The plant and flower may grow larger as the plant matures, but I don’t think the color will change.
Genes for Cattleya color are complicated. There are multiple genes, often recessive, that create a color form. Lacking detailed genetic analysis to identify color genes, breeders can only accumulate knowledge over many years from a “guess and check” method.