orchid ID requested

[ritjen]

Connie, I do have two of these....the second is a little smaller.( but also with spikes)..but since we have limited space, we are trying to grow them into more of a "display" plant...the former caretaker of the greenhouse just chopped them up ----every year----need it or not----so they are getting a chance to recover now.....I have some gigantic Cattleya trainei (sp?) that just finished blooming...some had 4 blooms and three spikes per plant ! it was great !

[Jose R. Nieves]

Connie, I do have two of these....the second is a little smaller.( but also with spikes)..but since we have limited space, we are trying to grow them into more of a "display" plant...the former caretaker of the greenhouse just chopped them up ----every year----need it or not----so they are getting a chance to recover now.....I have some gigantic Cattleya trainei (sp?) that just finished blooming...some had 4 blooms and three spikes per plant ! it was great !

Sorry! I forgot to tell you. This is a common plant here and you can see it growing
in almost every garden. They love to be mounted or in open baskets and they grow to huge size so plan ahead. Unfortunately they don't open all blooms at the same time. You are doing a great job. It;s a pity you don't have a pic of the C. trianae!
Jose