Catasetum Orchid 50mm Seedling SVO11265 (Cl. Grace Dunn 'Live Oak' HCC/AOS x Morm. badia 'SVO Yellow')

Hybrid seedling plant in a 50mm pot. Mo. Jumbo Doll

These are deciduous plants in their dormant phase(see photo).

This grex was registered years ago by Jumbo Orchids of Taiwan. We did not have the opportunity to see any of them bloom, so we remade it!  Cl. Grace Dunn (warczewitzii x rosea) ‘Live Oak’ produces 15 fragrant pink and green flowers with cute frilly lips on 3-4 pendulous inflorescences from each leafless bulb in mid-winter.  Morm. badia is one of the easiest Mormodes species to grow and bloom. Plants flowers with 2-3 inflorescences of 20 or more, bright yellow flowers,  and lips that are broad and flat, not recurved and saddle-shaped as in so many Mormodes.  As in all hybrids of this type,  the colour of the Mormodes will dominate as will the shape of the Clowesia.  Of particular note is the use of the yellow Mormodes, we expect this cross will deliver the “yet to be seen” yellow Mormodia flowers…Awesome!

Imported Seedling from Sunset Valley Orchids, USA. Picture shows the parent of this cross. The above description was written by Fred Clarke and details the expectation of this hybrid.