Anyone know what type of orchid this is?

by Karen Powers
(Wellington, FL)


I believe it is a type of Cattleya based on the long flat leaves. When it flowers, it is a beautiful ball of pink and white spotted flowers. I have never seen anything like it.

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Sep 27, 2012
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by: Cable Thompson

The flowers do indeed look a lot like a Cattleya, though the image resolution is such that it's hard to make out details. The leaves visible behind the flowers look a lot right, too; are there pseudobulbs? They would be long, kind of cigar-shaped, and probably covered in a thin whitish or brownish layer of dead leaves, but green underneath.

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