island cassie

The form of the yellow flowered plant almost looks like one of the cattleyas - maybe!

buzzwinder

The white with purlpe splotches-Odontoglossum gloriosum, I google image searched for the last 4 hrs. and found a pic that looks VERY close. not sure how to copy link to the site
Guillermo Angulo's Index of Orchid Images is this it? I know nothing ( SCHULTZY ) from "Hogans Heros" tv show ( Dating myself ) about orchids, other than they're pretty and from what I hear hard to grow here!

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Bill for my friend

lorax

Jay's Orchid Encyclopedia has a pic that's very similar for O. gloriosum.

Buzzwinder - you can link to whatever internets tube you wish by copying the URL from your browser's address bar, then pasting it here. Or, you can use the little button above the post window, the one that looks like the Earth with a chainlink, and paste it in there.

Cassie: here's a Lycaste orchid - you can see the structural similarity to the Catts, but I've never actually seen a yellow Cattleya. I don't think that the one in the pic is your species, though.

island cassie

Bill, Lorax - that o. gloriosum is so very similar that I think mine belongs around there. The sexual parts are a little different but the rest looks close. Thanks for all the legwork while I was out at a birthday party and also thanks for the orchid links!

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.

Image - this is a yellow one.

Thanks for your help!! Keeps me busy too.

Bob

Yeah man, might as well look at the bright side!

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lorax

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.

island cassie

Haha! Lorax - sounds as if we are both in the same boat (but I bow to your superior knowledge). However it is all fun and interesting (and keeps us out of the bars and nightclubs!) Did I really say that???

stumpy4700

dablo93

its a hybrid but i dont think you can say what hybrid because there are too many hybrids and they all look almost the same.
but i do know that it is a nice one!

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