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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