Victory and defeat in the cultivation of plants of the Cattleya Alliance.
Encyclia cordigera f. rosea
Published Thursday, May 04, 2006 by Damon | E-mail this post 
Perhaps one of the finest of the Mexican Encyclias, large well shaped blooms blessed with a pleasant fragrance in the mornining hours. Enc. cordigera has been the bedrock pollen parent of many succesfull and attractive clones. For example, it has been crossed with Lc. Rojo to produce Eplc. Charlie Brown and with Lc. Trick or Treat to produce Eplc. Orange Crush. Another example offered by Marble Branch Farms.
It also has a very pleasant growth habit with large apple sized green pseudobulbs tightly clustered together and topped with stiff leaves. The floral habit seems to be dominant even as the pollen parent; all of the offspring have that Encyclia 'look' about them. I'm pretty excited about this plant and its genetic potential...so far there are no registered crosses with other plants like Broughtonia. Crosses with Sophrolaeliocattleya are rare so there is potential for more interesting crosses. I have attempted a cross with the collected pollen of Slc. [Lc. Trick or Treat 'Spring Beauty' x Fire Lighter].
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