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Cattleya - Regular
This page includes all regular (not selected for shape or color, etc...) Cattleya species, Brazilian or exotic.
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Cattleya amethystoglossa
This species grows tall, robust plants that can
produce up to 20 or more pink-magenta flowers (up to 4" or more across); these are lightly to heavily spotted.
Plants are warm growers and like plenty of light and dryer during fall and winter. Two selected plants used here.
3" - 25.00
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Cattleya granulosa
Very showy species from the beaches of the northeastern
region of Brazil. Plants get quite tall and robust, producing then several waxy flowers about 5"across. Flower
color goes from green to yellow to bronze to dark red. Warm growers.
2" - 25.00
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Cattleya intermedia
This is the regular form of the species. So much has been done in terms of improvement
of the species that we forget how the flowers usually look like.
4" (NFS) - 15.00
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Cattleya kerrii
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 grower..
3" - 25.00
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Cattleya loddigesii
One of the best known of the bifoliate cattleyas,
and the first to be described. The delicate colors of the well-balanced flowers make the species a long time favorite
among growers. Plants stay manageable for a bifoliate and frequently start blooming quite small. Flowers 4".
Intermediate, but cold and heat tolerant.
3" - 15.00
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Cattleya luteola
This is the smallest of the unifoliate cattleyas.
It comes from the Amazon lowlands, so it is a warm grower and doesn't like too much of a seasonal variation. The
bright yellow flowers are about 2"across and produced up to 8 at a time on very compact plants.
2" (NFS to FS) - 15.00
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Cattleya nobilior amaliae x outcross select
These came from two very good jquality parents. Flowers will be light pink colored
with good to excellent shape.
NFS - 25.00
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Cattleya schilleriana
An extremely showy Brazilian bifoliate. Plants are robust, but short. Flowers
are very distinctive, and up to more than 4" across. Intermediate growers, plants prefer it a bit dryer in
the winter. Medium to strong light, depending on growing temperatures.
2" - 15.00
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