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Pre-order List - January 2012
This page includes plants available for pre-order, to arrive
in the U.S. late February / early March. We decided to allow this option as this a way to try to assure people
are going to have available what they want and we bring more of items that people want most. In case you are interested
in any of these, please let us know the latest by mid-February.
As an incentive for pre-orders, plants on this list will
have a 10% extra discount on top of our regular listed discounts.
A few of these items are still in our website list, but
are actually out of stock and this is why they are listed here. We are going to be bringing a lot more stuff that
we are unable to list for pre-order at this point, and these will be part of the next significant update on the
list by mid-March.
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Brassavola martiana
This is the typical Brassavola species from the Amazon. Flowers are among the smallest in the genus, but produced
in large numbers on the inflorescences. The main feature of the flowers are the fringed margins on the lips. Rare
in cultivation, fragrant at night.
FS - 20.00
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Cattleya bicolor 'Dark' x self
Selfing of a very dark Cattleya bicolor with the objective
to produce more of those. Unusual color of the species.
3" - 25.00
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Cattleya chocoensis (tipo
x orlata)
Here we have a plant like the one pictured here outcrossed
with another with flowers with a full circle of color around the lip. Result should be excellent shapes on flowers
with varied degrees of color encircling the lip.
3" - 35.00
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Cattleya dowiana aurea x sib select
This is the Colombian form of the species, also known as
Cattleya aurea. Segments are butter yellow and lips have very intense red veinings.
3" - 30.00
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Cattleya eldorado (alba
x 'Gigante Azul')
Here we have a somewhat speculative seedling
batch, a cross between an alba and a coerulea. This is the only way to produce more coeruleas (short of selfing
and risking the one available, but no guarantee though). Keep in mind that coeruleas are the most rare and simply
unavailable eldorados yet. Limited.
3" - 45.00
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Cattleya eldorado concolor punctata 'Bela' x self
Flowers of the mother plant are concolor pink, except for
a small darker mark on the lip, exactly like the one shown here. Flowers should very just a little, mostly repeating
the color. As with all eldorados, very fragrant.
3" - 45.00
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Cattleya eldorado magenta orlata
pincelada 'Tapajós'
x self
Another magnificent color form of Cattleya eldorado. Flowers are very dark with a even more contrasting lip. Selfings are the way to go to try to produce
more of these, and the variation might be only in the mount of dark color on the lips.
3" - 65.00
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Cattleya eldorado semi-alba 'Iracema' x self
A very rare color form of the species. Although light-colored
flowers are common in Cattleya eldorado, true semi-albas are extremely rare. The selfing is a way to try
to produce more of those.
3" - 65.00
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Cattleya eldorado orlata x self
Another spectacular eldorado, here pictured, selfed to produce
more plants of this outstanding color form. Plants are strong growers.
3" - 55.00
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Cattleya eldorado (tipo
x rubra)
This is an outcross between a plant with excellent flowers
but with the regular color with another one also with excellent quality but in this case with very dark flowers.
Idea is to produce more plants with excellent color and shape. Limited.
3" - 45.00
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Cattleya elongata
Cattleya elongata is very rare in cultivation, even in Brazil. Happens that this is a species that comes from a region
with a long dry period, and plants grow on fairly exposed rock ledges. Main concern then is with excess of water.
3" - 25.00
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Cattleya elongata alba x self
Cattleya elongata is rare in cultivation, especially any color forms. In this case, an unique alba was selfed aiming
to produce more of those green flowers with white lips. Very limited, one per customer, please.
3" - 100.00
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Cattleya forbesii
Cattleya forbesii is native of Rio de Janeiro, and most plants grow at sea level close to the ocean. As a result,
it is a very easy plant to cultivate. Color varies from green to tan on the segments, and the white lips always
have a yellow throat and red veins.
3" - 20.00
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Cattleya granulosa ('Coliseu' x 'Formosa')
Another outcross to produce more good granulosas. In this
case, flowers are more in greenish tones, nevertheless with excellent shape.
3" - 30.00
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Cattleya harrisoniana x sib select
A warm growing species from Brazil that also withstand very
low temperatures. Flowers can be up to 4" across and are produced up to 8 on an inflorescence. Very good growers.
Two good ones used here, to produce more flowers like this one.
3" - 25.00
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Cattleya intermedia (aquinii rubra x orlata)
This is a seedling batch with the objective of producing
flowers that are peloric and also with dark margins on the lip. There is quite some variation in the flowers, but
the percentage with splashes and dark margins like this one pictured is very high.
3" - 25.00
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Cattleya intermedia aquinii alba ('Neve' x 'Sublime')
This is a sib aiming to produce more of these gorgeous flowers,
like the one pictured here. So far, the success rate in this kind of seedling batch is extremely high.
4" - 40.00
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Cattleya kerrii x sib select
A very rare species from coastal tropical Brazil. The species
is closely related to Cattleya harrisoniana, but plants and flowers are a bit smaller. Warm growers.
3" (FS) - 25.00
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Cattleya labiata amesiana 'Bela' x self
Amesianas are very distinct and desirable labiatas, as the
color on the segments go from white to light pink, and the lips have only a light pink color with a yellow throat.
This particular one has white segments and excellent shape.
3" - 45.00
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Cattleya labiata amesiana lineata ('AWZ' x 'Pedra Azul')
These two plants depict an ever rarer variation of the amesianas,
as they have veins on the pink portion of the lip. This rare color pattern should repeat on the offspring
3" - 45.00
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Cattleya labiata amesiana concolor
('Serra Negra' x 'Angel')
In this case, both parents have light pink segments, so this
should repeat in this seedling batch.
3" - 40.00
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Cattleya labiata amesiana concolor
('Serra Negra' x 'Preciosa')
Another outcross to produce more light pink amesianas, with
a slightly different color pattern and shape. High quality expected in this batch, like in all other amesianas.
3" - 40.00
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Cattleya labiata coerulea ('Panelas'
x 'Junior')
A sib cross made using a very dark-lipped Cattleya labiata with another with excellent shape. The objective is producing more intense-colored coeruleas with
good shape. The one pictured came from a previous same outcross.
NFS - 55.00
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Cattleya labiata rubra integra
orlata ('Z-41' x 'ZAS-1')
When we say 'rubra integra orlata' we mean
lips with a full circle of dark color; pretty much this one. So here two of those were outcrossed to produce more
of these exceptionally colored individuals.
3" - 45.00
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Cattleya labiata rubra ('Schuller' x 'Deize')
A seedling batch using two very good rubras. Both have excellent
shape and dark color so we are expecting more of these very dark and round labiatas. Should be similar to the one
pictured here.
3" - 40.00
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Cattleya labiata rubra orlata
('Maravilha' x 'Veludo
Escuro')
A seedling batch using two excellent rubra orlatas.
Shape and color are the objective here so we are expecting more of these very dark and round labiatas, similar
to this one.
3" - 45.00
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Cattleya labiata semialba 'Perfection' x self
Selfing of one of the best current semialbas in cultivation.
Objective is to produce more of these awesome flowers.
3" - 45.00
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Cattleya labiata semialba ('Aiko' x 'Magnifica')
An outcross of two excellent semialbas. Expectations are
to produce more of these fantastic flowers, likely even better than the one pictured here
3" - 40.00
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Cattleya labiata semialba ('Arlequim' x 'Branca de Neve')
Another outcross of two excellent semialbas. Expectations
are to produce more of these outstanding flowers, on par with the other semialba seedling listed.
3" - 40.00
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Cattleya labiata semialba ('Garganta Escura' x sanguinea
'Paccione')
Objective here is to produce more semialbas with extremely
dark lip colors. For this, two older plants were used both with particularly dark lips and very good shapes.
3" - 40.00
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Cattleya labiata tipo ('Rodrigues' x 'Cara Grande')
A seedling batch to produce excellent flowers of the typical
color form of the species. As seen here, these show the typical white "eyes" on the sidelobes of the
lip and darker frontlobe.
3" - 35.00
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Cattleya loddigesii 4N x outcross
Outcrossing of two exceptional 4N loddigesiis, and the result
expected is flowers like the one pictured here. As one of them is spotted, we are expecting the whole spectrum
from no spots to a lot of them, all with excellent shape and substance
2" - 25.00
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Cattleya loddigesii punctataa ('AWZ' x 'AWZ #6')
Two excellent plants outcrossed here, one with very strong
spotting. Objective here is to produce flowers with excellent shape and varied degrees of spotting.
3" - 25.00
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Cattleya loddigesii alba x sib select
Sib of two very nice white loddigesiis. The results should
be very similar to the flowers pictured here, and considering these are very advanced generations, flower are expected
to be 100% white.
3" - 25.00
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Cattleya lueddemanniana concolor x self
Very rare color form of the species. Flowers are an uniform
light pink and shape is very good. A selfing should reproduce this pleasant color. Easy growers.
4" - 45.00
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Cattleya lueddemanniana (rubra
x 'Escura')
An outcross for dark-flowered lueddemannianas. The results
should be very dark flowers, like this one, but with more variation in terms of shape and lip color pattern than
the ones from the 'Escura' sib. Equally desirable.
3" - 25.00
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Cattleya lueddemanniana ('Escura' x 'Labelo Dourado')
Here we have an outcross between a very dark-flowerd plant
with another with lots of yellow in the lip. Objective is to have flowers with very good shape and a lot of color
contast on the lip. Something like this.
3" - 25.00
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Cattleya lueddemanniana Escura ('Roja' x 'Red')
Two very dark lueddemannianas sibbed here. The idea is to
produce dark flowers with excellent shape, something like the one pictured. Should be a fairly uniform seedling
batch.
3" - 25.00
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Cattleya nobilior ('D. Rafael' x 'Luciana')
Here we have two excellent regular type nobiliors outrossed,
and the only result we can expect is the production of more excellent dark nobiliors. This is a first blooming
seedling from this batch.
3" - 35.00
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Cattleya schoffieldiana ('Gabriel Uliana' x 'Jubarte')
Outcross with the objective of producing well-shaped green
schoffieldianas, as both parents have. Well, most schoffieldianas are green anyway, but using one plant from Espírito
Santo and another from Bahia should produce vigorous plants.
3" - 30.00
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Cattleya schoffieldiana ('Gabriel Uliana' x 'Ano Novo')
In this case, both plants are from Espírito Santo,
but with varied amounts of spotting. So in this case, we also expect very well-shaped flowers, and the variation
should be in the amount of spotting.
3" - 30.00
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Cattleya schoffieldiana 'Arraial da Ajuda' x self
Selfing of an excellent plant from Bahia. Plants should be
very vigorous and produce large dark green flowers with lots of veinings like the ne pictured here.
3"
- 30.00
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Cattleya trianae amesiana x sib select
Two excellent trianae amesianas were used here to produce
more of these white flowers with light pink lips. Both plants have very good shape and color,and this type of sib
usually is very faithful to the color. One of the first ones to bloom pictured here.
4" -
45.00
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Cattleya velutina x sib select
This is a very rare species, both in cultivation and in the
wild (due to extensive habitat destruction). The 3 1/2" flowers are very unique in the genus, and are produced
up to 8+ per inflorescence. Very limited quantity (so 1 per customer, please).
3" - 35.00
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Cattleya warneri coerulea ('Carolina' x 'Raasch')
An outcross of two excellent coeruleas. The colors
should be very similar to the ones of labiata coeruleas, except that segments tend to be lighter-colored in warneris.
Flowers should be very large, flowering season in Spring.
3" - 35.00
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Cattleya warneri concolor x self
The plant used for this selfing has light magenta segments
and the lip has the same color except for the white throat. Colors should be pretty much the same as on this one
pictured.
3" - 35.00
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Cattleya warneri (integra orlata 'FCC' x tipo 'Lua Cheia')
These will be regular color warneris, essentially
the same magenta color as labiatas. One of the parents also has a circle of dark color around the lip. As both
parents have exceptional shape, the idea is to produce more warneris with large and shapely flowers.
3" - 40.00
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Cattleya warneri tipo ('Schunk' x 'Pedra Azul')
An outcross of two outstanding regular warneris, to produce
more of these nice flowers. Color should be very similar to this one pictured, including the lip pattern which
is typical for the species.
3" - 30.00
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Laelia dayana coerulea x self
The showiest form of one of these not so common hadrolaelias.
Flowers are about or a bit over 3" across, always with an extremely dark purple lip.
3" - 75.00
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Laelia jongheana alba x sib select
These are sure to produce albas, and with good quality flowers,
those white with golden yellow lip throat and keels. Excellent growers, these plant are at a size to bloom. Very
few plants available.
NFS - 150.00
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Laelia milleri ('BV' x 'Cristiane')
One of the nicest rupicolous Laelia species, and the one
to produce almost always very intense red flowers. The species is also almost extinct in the wild. Two very bright
red flowered plants were outcrossed to repeat color. Flowers are about 2" across.
NFS - 30.00
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Laelia perrinii alba ('AM' x 'RK')
A very unusual form of the species. As the two parents have
pure white flowers, it is almost a 100% sure plants will produce them flowers. An interesting thing is that plants
have pigmentation even though the flowers don't.
3" - 35.00
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Laelia perrinii (delicata x amoena)
Unique color form of this very showy, large-flowered species.
Flowers should be white except for some very light pink on the lip front lobe. Flowers about 5"-6" across.
Fall bloomer.
3" - 35.00
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Laelia praestans (escura 'Caliman' x tipo 'Lena')
The idea is to produce high-quality dark flowers of the species.
Both parents have excellent shape with full segments and an unusually intense color so the results are predictable.
3" (NFS) - 25.00
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Laelia praestans 'Boa Vista' x sib
Selfing of a plant with excellent round flowers. Objective
here is to produce more flowers with this type of quality. Regular color, an even medium magenta with a much darker
lip
3" (NFS) - 25.00
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Laelia praestans ('Black Lip' x 'Daniel')
This is an outcross to produce round flowers with a contrasty
dark lip, like this one. These high-quality seedling batches of the species have been very consistent,so expectations
are high.
3" (NFS) - 25.00
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Laelia praestans ('Gigante' x 'Santa Leopoldina')
Two selected parents were used here, one producing very dark
and the other very large flowers. Flowers about 4" to 5" across, most already flowered with results like
this one (from the same batch).
3" (NFS) - 25.00
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Laelia sincorana coerulea ('clara' x 'escura')
Another seedling batch of this gorgeous color form of the
species. Here, a dark one was crossed with a light colored one to produce a wider possible spectrum of coerulean
tones.
2" (NFS) - 50.00
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Maxillaria schunkeana
The darkest of the maxillarias. Flowers are almost black
(actually a very, very dark purple-red), are about 3/4" across and produced several at at a time, each on
its short individual flower spike. Plants are also compact. Intermediate growers.
3" (FS) - 25.00
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Miltonia spectabilis alba x self
Selfing of a very rare albino form of this favorite warm-growing
Brazilian Miltonia. The large and flat flowers should be pure white with bright yellow callus region on the lip.
3" (NFS) - 35.00
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Sophronitis bicolor
The most recently described species with large flowers in
the genus. Flowers are red with mostly yellow lips. Plants are fairly large, and they prefer shade and intermediate
to cool temperature conditions. Very rare and very few available, so one per order please.
FS - 50.00
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Sophronitis brevipedunculata x sib select
Very easy to grow species. Flowers are lavender-red with
very good size (2" - 3"). Compact, heat-tolerant plants.
NFS - 20.00
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