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Large-Flowered Cattleya Species

Submitted by Art on Sun, 11/01/2015 - 22:43

The Queen of the Orchid World Spreads Her Wings to Cover the Whole Year

 

C. trianaei

When a vagabond plant collector named William Swainson sent a bundle of strange lavender-flowered plants thought to be parasitic to the Glasgow Botanic Garden in 1817, he opened the door to a flood of excitement that would engulf the horticultural world for the rest of the century.

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C. gaskelliana semi alba
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laelia lobata
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Ruiz
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C. maxima
George Green
Jackson Hooker
Curtis's Botanical Magazine
mossiae
Josef von Warscewicz
warscewiczii
Heinrich Reichenbach
dowiana
trianaei
Jean Jules
pseudobulb
Venezuela
Phragmipedium
Sobralia
Miltoniopsis
The Lost Orchid
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Cattleya labiata

Submitted by Art on Sun, 11/01/2015 - 22:30

The Lost Orchid

 

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The Orchid Review
'September Mist'
laelia
lobata
The Event of the Year
Award of Merit
AM
First Class Certificate
FCC
Royal Horticultural Society
RHS
Manual of Orchidaceous Plants
spring
purple
American Orchid Society
AOS
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