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Clawhammer 03-30-2020 10:57 AM

Most Fragrant Cattleya Alliance Species/Hybrid
 
Hey everyone! Post your most fragrant Cattleya species, want to make sure I am not missing any strongly fragrant plants in my collection :)

Right now my most fragrant catts are BLC Ports of Paradise and Cattleya Iricolor.

Keysguy 03-30-2020 11:31 AM

I think my fav is walkeriana

JScott 03-30-2020 11:40 AM

RLC George King 'Serendipity' has a great fragrance. Sweet, and flowery, and citrusy. When mine blooms, you can smell it in pretty much the entire house.

Subrosa 03-30-2020 12:34 PM

Totally agree about C. iricolor. Mine bloomed at the same time as one of my C. nobilior, which perfumed the whole upstairs of my house from first light in the morning, until a couple hours later when my iricolor completely masked it. I had to put my nose within a foot to smell the nobilior.

isurus79 03-30-2020 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Keysguy (Post 915483)
I think my fav is walkeriana

Mine as well!

I've never sniffed iricolor. Makes me want to find one and grow it just for the scent!

Dulcinea 03-31-2020 11:12 AM

Scent
 
Brassavola nodosa, Iwan Appleblossom, c Hawaiian Wedding Song and the Chinese Cymbidiums.

Afid 03-31-2020 01:11 PM

Well now I want to get a C. iricolor even more

JScott 03-31-2020 01:16 PM

Rhyncholaelia (Brassavola formerly) digbyana has a delightful, strong citrus smell. It's quite powerful and very pleasant. A lot of hybrids of digbyana will also have this scent, especially ones which have digbyana in the recent background of the hybrid. In fact I think digbyana is where the plant I mentioned before, RLC George King 'Serendipity', gets its citrus undertones. George King is 11.72% digbyana.

Clawhammer 03-31-2020 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by JScott (Post 915592)
Rhyncholaelia (Brassavola formerly) digbyana has a delightful, strong citrus smell. It's quite powerful and very pleasant. A lot of hybrids of digbyana will also have this scent, especially ones which have digbyana in the recent background of the hybrid. In fact I think digbyana is where the plant I mentioned before, RLC George King 'Serendipity', gets its citrus undertones. George King is 11.72% digbyana.

Agreed! I have digbyana, should have mentioned that. My Blc. Ports of Paradise 'Emerald Isle' FCC/AOS which is one of my favs is 50% digbyana

JScott 03-31-2020 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Clawhammer (Post 915603)
Agreed! I have digbyana, should have mentioned that. My Blc. Ports of Paradise 'Emerald Isle' FCC/AOS which is one of my favs is 50% digbyana

Oh wow, that's a good one, and they have it Hausermann right now. I feel the addiction creeping in. I'm trying to fight it, but before the sun sets, I will probably have ordered it hahahaha. Especially since it's from Hausermann. He has amazing Catts. Always huge for the price.


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