Within the Catasetum alliance, I prefer the true Catasetums and Clowesias. Current popular trends in this alliance seem to favor the Mormodes and Cycnoches - which I really am not interested in. So my collection of these are small, and I manage to acquire only a couple a year.
While I prefer to grow species, I have kept a few hybrids over the years, and here are a few of them.
Catasetum expansum x Jumbo Heart
Ctsm (Doris' Choice x Breckenridge Onxy) x (Susan Fuchs x spitzii)
Catasetum Olga
Unfortunately the rest of my photos are on flickr, which doesn't allow me to do a link to Blogger. So as they rebloom and I get new pics to my current photo site, I'll update this post.
Edit: February 2013. Another hybrid has come into bloom, and this is the plant that started my love of the Catasetum Alliance. Clowesetum Dragon's Treasure. Not only is it a beautiful flower, but the fragrance is perfect, strong, fresh and lemony.
Edit: February 2013. Another hybrid has come into bloom, and this is the plant that started my love of the Catasetum Alliance. Clowesetum Dragon's Treasure. Not only is it a beautiful flower, but the fragrance is perfect, strong, fresh and lemony.
hi,
ReplyDeletei am also a big fan of the catasetums and i am from Malaysia. would like to know where you are from as i am interested to do some barter trade for catasetum bulbs.
if you are interested, i can be contacted at
ianeklim@yahoo.com
hello everyone...
ReplyDeletei am also a mad-follower of catasetum alliance!.... most of my plants are attached on Phoenix Palms at my mother´s place in Panama... i live in Germany... i have some luck here with my orchids, but never the same as back home for my cat´s!...
That gorgeous Clowesetum that you display here i´ve seen in Ebay... quite expensive though... (worth it!)... =)
All the best =)