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Originally Posted by island cassie
Lorax - the lycaste orchid is very interesting but not quite there. The reason I wondered about cattleyas is the bifoliate habit, but then the flowers (but not the leaves) are very like dendrobium "Gatton Sunray". C forbesii comes in yellow, but the flowers are different.
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And there you have, in a nutshell, the difficulty in figuring out the exact identitiy of any orchid. It's even harder for me here, since I live in orchid central; we have over 4000 endemic species and then the growers also offer exotics and hybrids etc etc etc. The most frustrating for me was coming back from a hike with pics of an orchid that looked like a Cattleya from the flower, a Vanilla from the smell, a Dendrobium from the leaves, but had the terrestrial habit of an Epidendrum and was growing above the treeline. I had to send a picture to Ecuagenera to get the true ID - something called a Sobralia. Pic below.
Actually, I'll have a boo through the Sobralia gallery and see if anything matches your yellow one; the leaf habit and flower style seem to match.
