Cattleya mossiae tipo

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Going to try to breed this one with pollinia that I saved from last summer from a friend's tipo mossiae that flowers a few months later in the season. The one pictured here has better shape, but the pollen parent is more floriferous (it regularly produces four to five flowers per spike, compared to a maximum of three on this one) and lighter in color. Hopefully I'll have something to send to Troy Meyers next year to make the "garden variety" mossiae more available to anyone who might want a flask.