Cycnoches Golden Showers
 

A cross made of Cycnoches herrenhusanum (sect. Heteranthae) x Cycnoches chlorochilon (sect. Eucycnoches). To me the result is eye candy.

Your eye candy is delicious!

beautiful! they look like butterflies.

Do you think whoever named this knew? LOL

(If you don't know, and don't want to know, you might prefer not to put 'golden showers' into google)

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

I'm pretty sure they had no idea. Or an AMAZING sense of humor!!

:crackup:.
Nice flowers, whatever the name.

Kim

Please tell me the smell doesn't fit the name!

(and yeah, nice flowers)

:rofl::rofl::rofl: Nor did I have an idea.
There is an Oncidium Golden Showers, an Cymbidium Golden Showers, a Phalaenopsis Golden Showers, so I didn't rack my brains over the name of this cross until today.
The name was given to this cross by H&R nurseries in Hawaii, registered 22/11/2004. H&R stands for Harry Akagi and Roy Tokunaga. Some of you may know Roy as an AOS judge. He is a very experimented orchid hybridizer. In the H&R nurseries thread in this board the nurseries are described as immaculate by OrchidThief79.

Okay, now I know what Golden Showers can be and I'll avoid to stand under the flower spike. At least the smell of the flowers doesn't fit for that special name. Eventually Roy had a a weak spot for Frank Zappa and Bobby Brown.
And for me, I'll may be suffering from orchidophilia, but that's enough of paraphilia. :lol:

LOL! Yes, especially if you've just given it a drink...

I used to have a Mills and Boon book called 'Golden Showers'. Sure they didn't know... For anyone who doesn't know, Mills and Boon are pulp soft romances, nothing 'nasty' at all. Not my kind of book, I just had it for the funny title!

I thought that literally translated it meant something like laburnum.

Really lovely flowers!

The name didn't strike me for the other meaning, though when RowanGreen mentioned it I admit to knowing what he meant :coverlaugh:

Beautiful!