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Cattleya dolosa

Discussion in 'Orchid Species' started by tenman, Dec 14, 2010.

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  1. Dec 14, 2010 #1
    tenman

    tenman Well-Known Member

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    Blooming again, this plant I got in trade is much paler than its first blooming and looks almost like a coerulean form, which it did not last time. It must be the cooler winter temps or lower light. And the form has improved markedly over the first blooming.
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    Alexis

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    Very nice! What's your take on this being a species or a natural hybrid between loddigesii and walkeriana?
     
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    I'm going with the latest taxonomic opinion, which says its a species. One of the reasons is the failure to reproduce it articficially. There are others, of course, so I'm going with it being a species.
     
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    Yeah, that's exactly what I'd learned in my research. Maybe one day Kew will get on board...