Cattlianthe Chocolate Drop 'Kodama'AM/AOS
A well-known grex/cultivar this. I bought this plant some three months ago - so claim nothing for culture ( nor accept criticism ! ). It came from the collection of a recently deceased cattleya lover - a trader I was visiting told me he had two or three hundred planst and I might find something of interest, and since they had had gone down hill a bit in the interval between death and his acquisition I could have any I wanted at $15 each. I thought this a good buy, if true to name - which it is.
Well grown, with canes as big as the best of the old ones here it should manage 8,10, a dozen - even more, flowers. Flower size 7cm - could expand a little more to be over 3 inches, I guess.
The parentage for those interested is C.gutatta x Gurianthe aurantiaca - which was called C.aurantiaca when I started growing ; both have glossy flowers with a lot of substance although the aurantiaca parent has a habit of not opening well, and many clones are actiually cleistogamous ( self pollinating - so they don't need to open at all)- which may be passedon here to a tiny extent.
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