pink

Large heavily textured flowers that resemble a Cattleya.

Awarded today at the Toronto AOS monthly judging with an 80 point AM with 5 large flowers around the plant like ‘pink pearls’ (thus the name). What’s striking to me is the two toned color shade differences in the sepals versus the petals. A plant I’ve had for over 15 years, grown beautifully...

Poor thing… transport wardrobe malfunction lol. But I see potential 🙈. It’s (micranthum x bellatulum). A very light pink puff ball.

This multigrowth plant seems always to bloom at every new lead (blooms during spring as each new lead matures). NS 15 cm.

I was fortunate as team captain to help award this stunning and huge flower get an FCC of 90 points at the Cali show here in Colombia. At a massive size of 15.5 cm with four flowers on one inflorescence, it commanded presence! The lineage is from Cashen’s x Mary Fennell, which is infamous...

As for most of the no I.D. orchids in my collection (and there are many), this orchid was given to me by a neighbor moving away to a colder climate. He said it once had a tag, but that it was likely lost in a previous move. After cleaning it up and removing the older and slightly rotted bits, I...