A nameless Oncidium - never willo be an ID !
A plant from a garden centre in UK - I know they send a van over to the Westland ( Province of the Netherlands) to fill with orchids, from one of the industrial units there which mass-produces plants. No criticism of this - I admire their fantastic standard of cultivation, produce perfect plants in record time - mostly entirely automated, so that they can sell ( if you buy a big van-load, as cash and carry, at 3 or 4 each. £ or US$, - very similar numbers for these prices, Euros too,) and this means the garden centre after paying costs of taking a van across the channel, driver away for a couple of nights (?) perhaps, and all their overheads plus profit, can sell them for say 12 or at most 15 each.
I think this one is potentially very fine. It started off with 10 buds a few weeks/months ago, but I saw snail slime on it, and had to cut some off.
Looks even darker to the human eye ( mine) in daylight.
Of course they never put a name on these plants - to avoid competitors copying the cross.
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