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Old 06-01-2008, 06:50 AM
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Well shame on the University of Connecticut. You'd think a university would know about orchid hybrids and how orchid names work. You'd think.

1) The correct genus is not Epicattleya, (Epidendrum x Cattleya) it is Catyclia (Cattleya x Encyclia). The parents of Catyclia Lollipop are Encyclia tampense and Cattleya loddigesii. While all Encyclias used to be registered as Epidendrum for horticultural purposes, this is no longer the case.

2) The grex, Lollipop should not appear in single quotation marks. Single quotation marks indicate a cultivar name not a grex.

So the proper name of this plant, in spite of what the University of Connecticut indicates, is Catyclia Lollipop.

Encyclia tampensis has green-brown sepals and petals usually with a white lip with a purplish overlay. Cattleya loddigesii is one of the large, flat mauve-ish-pink cattleyas with a white-pink lip. The encyclia is small-flowered while the cattleya is fairly large. So the offspring of this cross will probably be mid-seze to slightly smaller, probably about the size of a cattleyatonia or guaritonia flower and have pinkish petals and sepals possibly with a brown-ish overlay and a white and pink lip.

None of the hyperlink features seem to be available when composing or managing my post so I'll just have to give links ot the parent pics:
Cattleya loddigesii - http://www.delfinadearaujo.com/on/ar...a%20AM-AOS.jpg
Encyclia tampensis - http://members.tripod.com/~rsauleda/tampensis.jpg
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