You are reading the "Cattleya & Related Species" category of my online catalog. Click on an underlined link to see a larger picture, additional pictures, or to read more information if it is available. Please remember that offspring from hybrid matings will be unique and sometimes very different from each other and the individual pictures used to represent the cross. Species grown from seed will show more uniformity (they are species after all) but each plant will still be unique.

A very bright growing species. Flowers are very fragrant at night. These are mounted on cork bark plaques approx. 4 x 6 inches in size and were made from large divisions of a HUGE plant I have been growing for years.
cork mounts…..$25.00

As near as I can tell there is no difference between the flowers of B. nodosa and this seedgrown population of B. grandiflora. Most sites on the Internet call it B. nodosa var. grandiflora. There is a difference in the leaf morphology of these offspring compared with my B. nodosa ‘Leesburg’. These plants have longer, greener and flatter leaves in general. B. nodosa ‘Leesburg’ has stubby rolled pencil-like leaves with a blue gray coloration. Perhaps my B grandiflora came from parents collected from a wetter and shadier environment within the natural range of B. nodosa and have less of a need for sun tolerant and draught tolerant adaptations to survive. Just a guess…
4″ plastic baskets………….$25.00

A spring blooming species. Bright orange clusters. Probably requires a natural diurnal clock to trigger flowering. I think it is increasing day length that triggers it to bloom. Growths mature with sheaths in late summer but don’t flower until the following spring. Multi-lead growths are still available in both 4″ and 5″ pots. In the spring of 2009, all the plants were in 4″ pots and about half of them flowered for the first time. Plants were about 12″ tall at the time.
4″ pot………….$25
5″ pot………….$30

The parents are (‘Blue Ridge’ x self). Winter blooming species large purple flowered species. Does best in very bright light. Sorry no picture, but lots of images on the internet of this species. I got this flask from Ken at Orchid Enterprise years ago and they are approaching blooming size within the next few growths.
4″ pot…………$25.00

The parents are (‘Lock Raven’ x self). A selfing of a selected blue cultivar. Blooms in later spring to early summer in my area. This is another cattleya species I received from Ken at Orchid Enterprise in flask. This species is currently accepted to be in the genus Guarianthe so a correctly written name would be Guarianthe skinneri (Bateman) Dressler & W.E. Higgins, comb. nov. You can access the published paper (in .pdf format) that explains this change to it and several other well known species in the Cattleya genus here. The picture is of a typical skinneri that belongs to a friend. It is NOT a the cultivar ‘Lock Raven’.
2.5″ pot………$15.00
4″ pot…………$25.00

A compact cattleya species that likes to grow bright and dislikes having roots confined in pots or buried in potting media. Still I managed to grow these from seedlings to blooming size in 4″ pots before rediscovering them on a high bright out of the way bench in my greenhouse and potting some into baskets where they belong. (“Would you look at that. I didn’t know I had any of those. That’s probably why they’re still alive.”) In 5″ pots they are planted in very large bark mix to continue my experiment. I think the real trick to success is to forget, again, that they are here, else I will just pester them to death.
4″ baskets….$25.00
5″ pots……..$35.00