Our
Sophrolaeliocattleya (Slc.) Kararizi Dawn 'Red Star' [bought from
Exotic Plant Company (EPC)] has bloomed, with two gorgeous red flowers. Slc. are intergeneric bybrids, with plants from the genera
Sophronitis,
Laelia and
Cattleya in their ancestry.
Wikipedia suggests there has been quite a bit of taxonomic upheaval in this group, and Slc. is probably not the correct name for many (if any) of them any more... I can't seem to find this particular hybrid in the
RHS database either. :/ These plants apparently like fairly warm temperatures and quite a lot of light.
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Slc. Kararizi Dawn 'Red Star' |
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Both flowers |
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Two more buds on their way - yay! Judging from how quickly the last flowers developed, they should open in about 2 weeks or less. |
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Close up of the labellum. |
Interestingly, these flowers (and the others we saw already in bloom at EPC) are very red, with hardly any yellow and quite narrow petals; the "official" picture for this particular hybrid shows a lot of yellow, and much broader petals:
I think I prefer the style of the ones we have to the "official" picture! It also seems possible that either EPC or their suppliers got the hybrid name a bit wrong; whilst googling
Sophrolaeliocattleya, I came across something called
Slc. Kagaribi Dawn 'Red Star'; this picture looks a lot more like ours! Also, the only google result for the name on the label is at the EPC website, whilst Kagaribi Dawn 'Red Star' gets quite a lot of hits. There is also an entry for
Kagaribi Dawn (a hybrid of
C. Kagaribi and
C. Tropic Dawn - which are hybrids of hybrids too!) in the RHS database - looks like these plants are now considered to be
Cattleya...!
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