L. purpurata

[Ron-NY]

This is a first bloom seedling purchased last year from Arunda Orchids.

 

[Elena]

Beautiful!

I have var. carnea and 'werckhäuseri' but they are still young so no blooms this year.

 

[NYEric]

Nice. Did you pick it up from Aranda at last year's GNYOS show?

 

[Greenpaph]

Beautiful lip!

 

[Ron-NY]

Nice. Did you pick it up from Aranda at last year's GNYOS show?

I believe so, or at Miami in 2006

 

[NYEric]

They always have lots of bulbs but no pics to see what they look like in bloom.

 

[Ron-NY]

They always have lots of bulbs but no pics to see what they look like in bloom.

Being it is a Brasil vendor, they have to bring these in bare root...I know what I am looking for so I don't need pics

 

[NYEric]

Ya, me too but it doesn't promote impulse buying!

 

[Roy]

Just read this thread, did you know that the 'experts'????? have classed this as a Sophronitis now.????
Any day we'll have pigs flying if this is a sophronitis.

 

[NYEric]

Really? That confuses things, maybe they should just lump them together as Cattleyas!

 

[Roy]

Well, just to add some more info, some of the plants we know / knew as Sophronitis are no longer sophronitis, they have a whole new name. Many of the Laelia family, Oncidiums and others have been renamed ?? but the RHS still lists them in the registrations at the old names. Atleast they have the right idea.