Charming Cattleya Hybrids: Incredible Floral Diversity To Tempt the Hobbyist

摘要

CATTLEYA HYBRIDS OFFER A range of attractions. Most famous are large flowers with frilly lips and often a pleasant perfume. In the early days of orchid hybridizing, a major goal for cattleyas was to create showy flowers that appeared around popular holidays. The fashion for showy cut-flower orchid corsages generated big -sales for Easter, Valentine's Day, Christmas and graduation and prom seasons. Orchid hybridizers wanted major flower crops to meet these seasonal sales. Thanks to these creative hybridizers, working mainly in the 1930s to 1950s, we have many large-flowered Cattleya hybrids in bloom around major holidays.