9 lovely flowers and I suppose by your post they derive from different bulbs/sprouts of the same plant. But there seems to be a different colouration ... at least in the photo. The colouration of the left flowers seems to be more intense ?
But, Rudolf, this is really where Catts distinguish themselves from Paphs: it's not that unusual to see colour differences in flowers from the same plant. I've even seen a photo of a C. dowiana (I think it was) with two markedly different coloured flowers...on the same inflorescence!
Patrick is that two plants? Lovely and impressive in any event
Belle, read the last 3 posts before your own!
Oops! But as I look at his photo, it looks like two separate plants/pots. Am I seeing things?Belle, read the last 3 posts before your own!
Nope....now the 'ooopsing' is on me!
Love you anyway, Jens.Nope....now the 'ooopsing' is on me!
It is one plant with two spikes on two growths, the spike on the right hand side has been open longer then the one on the left hand side. the color in the petals fades as the flowers age. the pot on the bench to the right is a Purpurata-like plant as far as the foliage goes, it's Lc.Callistoglossa
Thank you for your post!A wonderful display - well done, Patrick!
I think, though, that taxonomically speaking, it's a fault to consider 'Gilbert Rubra' a variety. Sounds rather like a clonal name - and you have correctly designated it as such in the caption to your post!
If used by growers to distinguish a specific breeding line and they insist on sticking to the varietal epithet, we are certainly out of botanical taxonomy and into horticultural naming - and the name should be followed by a designation to qualify that, i. e. Catt. purpurata var. Gilbert Rubra (Hort.)
But, Rudolf, this is really where Catts distinguish themselves from Paphs: it's not that unusual to see colour differences in flowers from the same plant. I've even seen a photo of a C. dowiana (I think it was) with two markedly different coloured flowers...on the same inflorescence!
Thank you for your post!A wonderful display - well done, Patrick!
I think, though, that taxonomically speaking, it's a fault to consider 'Gilbert Rubra' a variety. Sounds rather like a clonal name - and you have correctly designated it as such in the caption to your post!
If used by growers to distinguish a specific breeding line and they insist on sticking to the varietal epithet, we are certainly out of botanical taxonomy and into horticultural naming - and the name should be followed by a designation to qualify that, i. e. Catt. purpurata var. Gilbert Rubra (Hort.)
But, Rudolf, this is really where Catts distinguish themselves from Paphs: it's not that unusual to see colour differences in flowers from the same plant. I've even seen a photo of a C. dowiana (I think it was) with two markedly different coloured flowers...on the same inflorescence!
Looks like a striata to me.
