A very beautiful hybrid, This is the only coerulea peloric Catt. I love.
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I guess it is mini-catt season at my house!
This is the first bloom for this little plant, and it completely snuck up on me, producing a bud without at least warning me first with a sheath!
I love the purple flower (even if it ended up a bit askew ) and it is lightly fragrant in the mornings.
A very beautiful hybrid, This is the only coerulea peloric Catt. I love.
beautiful bloom, the coloring is great
Wonderful cattleya orchid hybrid! That bloom looks huge on that mini plant.
cheers,
BD
Lovely 'blue' mini catt!
Ahhh...gorgeous!!! This makes me that much more anxious for my Mini-Quinee to bloom!! Mine's still growing up, so the blooms will be a surprise when they arrive.
I had a catt do the "no sheath" thing for me just last week! I was looking at my Lctna. Mighty Titan and I saw some weird thing poking up in between two leaves. It turned out to be a spike with a bud on it. Unfortunately I didn't notice it until after I had left that side facing the sun for too long, and, well, the spike blasted. Boo. I agree that a little warning with a sheath would have been nice.
I'm glad yours bloomed out so beautifully!! Gorgeous catt you have there!
Thanks Jenn! The lack of sheath (and that I thought it was too little to bloom on this pseudobulb) is why the flower ended up angled - I didn't bother to stake it up!
I'm guessing yours will bloom soon; mine was only in a 2.5 inch pot when this photo was taken and the leaves are about 4 inches long. So, they don't need to get too big to bloom!
Most Cariad's Mini-Quinee have great coerulea colors as well as only one flower on a spike.
Yours is no exception.
Interesting Horst, I hadn't noticed that this little guy tends to have only one flower per spike, but a quick Google search, of course, showed you to be absolutely correct! What an unusual characteristic. Now, of course, my primary goal for this plant is to get two flowers on a spike
Cariad's Mini-Quinee is a hybrid made with Cattleya Mini Purple (Cattleya pumila x Cattleya walkeriana) and Cattleya intermedia.
Cattleya walkeriana (1 to 3 flowers) and Cattleya intermedia (3 to 6 flowers) have more than one flower on a spike.
Cattleya pumila has normally one sometimes two flowers.
Your plant has Cattleya intermedia and Cattleya walkeriana characteristics.
Therefor the chance to get more than one flower is good.