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    Default Plant ID Contest...

    The true flower color is deep purple/ blueish tint... unlike most internet photos that look medium dark lavender...Name:  xx1.jpg
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    Oh how beautiful!

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    Maybe Cattleya lovers would be able to ID it. Colour is very intense!

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    Beautiful but difficult to give the ID only the expert one maybe.

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    OK, I'll ask......."what do we win?"

    ---------- Post Merged at 11:09 AM ----------

    my guess would be maybe a hybrid of leuddemanniana?

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    I do know the name, Cattleya mossiae 'Willowbrook' FCC/AOS species. It is just a darker color from all internet photos and also the websites photo that i bought it from?... They all are deep lavender shades... I did read the willowbrook was among the darkest mossiae varieties. but cant find a photo with dark purple/ bright yellow..I was just wondering if anyone was growing a willowbrook and might recognize it, or if it is normal. possibly has frost damage from shipping?

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    Great flower! I don't think you could get away with no shipping damage if the plant was in flower or the buds were well developed.

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    Looks like a C. mossiae x C. lueddemanniana

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    Unfortunately , the internet can only display 256 different colour shades. It is a matter of physics or perhaps we could say mathematics, and because it uses an 8 bit system. Professional photographers who are into this stuff will understand. Mere amateur dabblers like me, only dimly understand. But this is one reason why we cannot get “true” colours on our screens.
    The second reason is that our human eyes ( you are all humans, who are reading this, not bots or aliens, right ?) can see - detect - a limited spectrum. At both ends of that, the ultra-violet, and the infra-red, we cannot see.
    But other animals can. This is why moths can see in the dark, etc., etc., if we illuminate flowers in certain lights, we get to see markings which we do no see normally.
    But then, what is shown on the screen is a version of what the camera sensor could see - and again it is a fact, a matter of physics and maths, which determines what the digital sensor can see. There is no, repeat no, sensor which matches the human eye. So it fails to record what we see, but records what we cannot see. And then the camera sensor control chip takes over. First it brightens the actual blue and true red ( 50% yellow and 50% magenta) and then it plays about with the greens- after all, our eyes can determine a thousand shades of green, but only a few hundred of red, and less of blue.
    In the end, it is quite remarkable that digital cameras show us something which seems near to our memories.
    As to correct colours , forget it. It just is not possible with current technology.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dorsetman View Post
    Unfortunately , the internet can only display 256 different colour shades.
    Is that true, Geoff? I do my own web work, and if I specify a color in hexidecimal (#rrggbb), each of those individual letters can be represented with a-f or 0-9, or 16 individual settings. That means that I can express 16*16*16*16*16*16=16,777,216 different colors.

    Whether your browser and monitor can display them is a whole different matter.

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