Coelogyne cristata varieties, growth habits?

[DavidCampen]

One complaint I have about orchid photographs in vendor catalogs and books is that they often show only the flower. I am just as interested in seeing the growth habit and form of the plant as I am of the flower.

A case in point. The Coelogyne cristata that I have is very lanky with 4 cm or more of rhizome between pseudobulbs. However I was just looking at a very nice book published in 1980, "Orchids For Everyone", and it shows a photograph of a Coelogyne cristata plant with very closely bunched pseudobulbs. The book comments "The pseudobulbs of Coelogyne cristata, for example, are produced very close together; a mature speciment frequently has the appearance of a bunch of large, shriveled grapes".

For people that have Coelogyne cristata, what is the growth habit of your plant? I would like to have a plant with the tightly bunched pseudobulbs but most vendor catalogs, even vendors of species plants, rarely show the plant.

[Masdyman]

The ones I have are quite close together and produce a well balanced plant. I also have Coelogyne cristata var lemoniana which does scramble a lot more and has a large space between bulbs as you describe.
Thanks Keith