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Cattleya violacea 'MC688' × self
 
 
 
 
Number: TN1836
Name: Cattleya violacea 'MC688' × self
Type: self    (What's that?)
Seed Donor: Jorge Alejandro Paulete Scaglia  (Email: peritus@e24x7.com.br)
 
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For additional origin/habitat information supplied courtesy of Charles and Margaret Baker, see further below, near the bottom of this page.

Temperatures we attempt to use in the lab & greenhouse:
For Species:   Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter: days average 85°F, nights 71°F; best fit is Warm 90-70°F (Source: Baker's Web OSC)
For Genus:   Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter: days average 83°F, nights 60°F; best fit is Intermediate 83-60°F ( )

About the name...
Etymology of Cattleya   Named in honor of William Cattley, English horticulturist in the 19th century. (Source: Pridgeon 1992)
Etymology of violacea   From Latin "violaceus" purple. (Source: Mayr & Schmucker 1998)
Pronunciation of Cattleya   KAT-lee-ya (Sources: Pridgeon 1992, Hawkes 1978)
Pronunciation of violacea   vy-oh-LAH-see-ah (Source: Hawkes 1978)
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Availability: We have sold all of the flasks for this item.
You should: Consider getting individual plants or compots instead of a flask.
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You may reserve a flask, but it's very unlikely you'll get one ...this could only happen if we found a flask that we didn't know we had.
Yield Estimate: 485 plants (based on flask surveys done 03/05/2002 )
Yield estimates are only approximate, but may appear to be fairly exact numbers because they are a combination of large rough estimates in remaining mother flasks and more accurate small estimates in reflasks.
Plantlet Sizes: From many flasks 15 - 60 mm plants (based on flask surveys done 01/08/2003 through 02/11/2003)
From one most recently surveyed flask 30 - 60 mm (02/11/2003)
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The origin/habitat information below is supplied courtesy of Charles and Margaret Baker

The following information is based on the name of the plant provided by the donor, and assumes that the name is correct. If the plant has been misidentified, then the following information may not be correct.
This text is copyrighted by the Bakers and may not be reproduced without permission.

ORIGIN/HABITAT: Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and British Guiana. Cattleya violacea is distributed over a larger region than any other Cattleya. Plants are concentrated in 3 primary areas, where they normally grow on trees near streams at 500-2300 ft. (150-700 m). They are usually found in light shade on tree branches which stretch horizontally over the rivers. This ensures a continued source of moisture from condensation, even during the dry season. The first and largest habitat area consists of the tributaries of the Amazon River from near its mouth to the foothills of the Andes west of Iquitos, Peru, a distance of approximately 1500 miles (2400 km). While plants are reported almost to the mouth of the Amazon, most of this population is found west of Manaus, Brazil. The species has spread south of the Amazon about 400 miles (650 km) onto the Brazilian Plateau to as far south as the state of Mato Grosso. North of the Amazon, plants are found about 100 miles (160 km) up the Rio Branco, and several hundred miles up the Rio Negro on the south side of the highlands separating Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and Guyana (British Guiana). A second area of habitat exists along the Río Paragua and Río Caroni in Venezuela, which flow into the Orinoco River on the north side of the highlands separating Venezuela and Brazil. In the same general area, plants are found along the Essequibo River in northern British Guiana. A third area of concentration has been reported in the eastern foothills of the Andes in Colombia, where plants grow in the basin of the Ariari River near Villavicencio. This is a huge area of distribution by any standard. Normally, when a species is found over such a large area, it indicates that the species is adaptable to many different growing conditions. But this rule of thumb fails dismally in this instance. When climatological records from weather stations near each of the smaller habitat areas are compared with ones from in and around the Amazon Basin, any differences are so small as to seem impossible. It is nearly inconceivable that an area this large has weather that is so much the same, but such is the case.
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