Search results
- And there are two types of cattleyas, where foliage is concerned: unifoliates and bifoliates. Unifoliate types have a single leaf on each pseudobulb, and bifoliate types have two or three leaves each.
gardenerspath.com/plants/flowers/grow-cattleya-orchids/
People also ask
Are Cattleya bifoliate or unifoliate?
Are bifoliate Cattleyas difficult to grow?
Are Cattleyas a good horticultural plant?
Is Cattleya bicolor a natural hybrid?
Are Cattleyas native to Brazil?
What is a Cattleya orchid?
information on most all of the bifoliate species. The more you know about how it grows in nature, the fewer plants you will kill from trial and error. Some traits that nearly all bifoliate cattleyas have in common is that they have a very specific growing period, rooting period and resting period. They also do not produce
- 22KB
- 2
Feb 1, 2018 · Bifoliate Cattleya species are a bit more sensitive to when they are re-potted. They tend to sulk and not grow well if they are not re-potted when the roots are actively growing. There are many Cattleya hybrids that have unifoliate and bifoliate species in their ancestry.
Those Cattleya species that flower from specially modified reproductive growths (appear to be basal inflorescences) are not, strictly speaking, bifoliate cattleyas but they were included here by the author.
These two groups remain, however, significant pieces of the genus; the labiate cattleyas which have large, broad-petaled flowers borne severally on plants possessing one-leaved pseudobulbs; and the bifoliate cattleyas which have smaller, usually narrow-petaled flowers borne (generally) in clusters on plants with spindly pseudobulbs bearing two ...
Feb 25, 2019 · Cattleya bicolor – this is one of the bifoliate group, with smaller flowers, but more of them. Colours range from green to yellow, brown pink and lavender; Cattleya 'King of Taiwan' – a beautiful hybrid with rich purple flowers
- BBC Gardeners' World Magazine
CATTLEYAS: Bifoliate Species in Breeding Yellow, orange, red and green hybrids as derived from C. aclandiae, aurantiaca, bicolor, forbesii, granulosa, leopoldii (guttata), schillerana, and velutina; refer to OD74-5+
Bifoliate Cattleya Orchids. Very few orchids are more beautiful than a well grown bifoliate Cattleya species. C. bicolor is probably the most popular of the bifoliates, the colour range is so wide that very few cultivars of this species are alike.
