Orchid pics - Orchid Board

tim abbott · #1 (**permalink**) 07-04-2009, 11:26 AM

1st pic is a phal. It developed the first keiki a couple of months ago when it flowered, it started a new stem which I assumed would be a flower & now it is growing leaves, 2nd pic is same plant, 3rd pic is my orchid patch: phals, dens oncidiums, catts, Lc, cymbidiums and a couple of other catt cross breeds, 4th pic is the first bloom from a little Lc. Llary Ann Paradise I bought a couple of months ago at an orchid show, the tag says it is a cross of Lc.Memoria Robrt Strait x Lc. Jungle Flare & said it was deflasked 6-06

Tim Abbott

Pilot · #2 (**permalink**) 07-04-2009, 11:46 AM

Very healthy plants you have there. Where in the US are you?

I'd like a keiki.. I mean I'm getting one of my own (she's due in 20 days) but it'd be nice to have an orchid keiki, too :-D

seamonkey · #3 (**permalink**) 07-04-2009, 02:16 PM

Nice collection, I love the bloom on that lc!

Ray · #4 (**permalink**) 07-04-2009, 04:10 PM

Your friendly taxonomists have decides that all of the parents of your cattleya are of that genus, so the registered name is Cattleya Llory Ann.

tim abbott · #5 (**permalink**) 07-04-2009, 08:16 PM

Hi Ray,

Thanks for correcting me, I looked at the label again & I had misread it. Since the L is capitalized & appears first, does that mean that a laelia was the origional plant that was then crossed with a cattleya or would it mean a cattleya was grafted to a laelia?

Hi Pilot I live in Cocoa Beach, Florida which is about the middle of the state on the east coast. All of the plants are under a large shefflera tree & are on a protected northwest corner so they are sheilded from salt spray & too much sun. We are entering the rainy season now so they get lots of humidity & showers. They seem to like that spot.

Tim Abbott