Cattleya Blackjack
Cattleya looked down at her younger sister when she started fidgeting under her grasp. And she's pretty much Gensokyo's equivalent of Blackjack. Cattleya (Black Jack x Mark Jones) 'Royal Basin Speckles' AM/AOS, 81 pts. Catasetum Alexa 'Arnie' AM, 81 pts. Paphiopedilum Catherine Briois 'Seagraves' AM/AOS, 83 pts.
- Cattleya is closely related to Laelia.Only the number of pollinia differs between the two genera (Laelia has 8 pollinia, Cattleya 4).Cattleyas are popular for their big and colourful flowers. Cattleyas are popular because of their large, colorful flowers. The genus Cattleya is divided into 2 groups: the unifoliate Cattleya.This group includes Cattleya club-shaped bulbs with a terminal leaf.
- Blackjack, or “Black Jack,” is an indica dominant hybrid (70% indica/30% sativa) strain created through a powerful cross of the infamous Jack Herer X Black Domina strains. If you're looking for an uplifted head high that's pretty well balanced with a relaxing body buzz, you've found it!
Cattleya iricolor Rchb. f. 1874 SUBGENUS Stellata Withner 1988 Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Flower Closeup Photo by © Eric Hunt
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Common Name Rainbow-colored Cattleya
Cattleya Black Jack
Flower Size 3 1/2' [8 cm]
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Found in Peru and Ecuador in the eastern Andes as an ascending, unifoliate epiphyte in wet montane forests, high up in tall tree branches at elevations of 400 to 1220 meters and is a rare, hot to cool growing, erect epiphytic species with clavate, slightly compressed pseudobulbs that become sulcate with age and carries a single, apical, narrowly oblong-elliptic or oblong, acute, conduplicate towards the base, coriaceous leaf that blooms in the late winter and spring on a terminal, erect, 2 1/2' [6.25 cm] long, few [6 to 10] flowered inflorescence arising from a conduplicate sheath on a newly emerging pseudobulb and is held at mid-leaf.
ReferencesW3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 10 576 - 632 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1977; The Catttleya and their Relatives Withner Vol 1 1988 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 411 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1992 drawing/photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 011 Bennet & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 6 2004 photo fide; Flora Of Ecuador # 76 225[2] Dodson & Luer 2005 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 # 3 2006 photo fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 79 #4 2015 photo fide;
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Within the genera of Cattleya and Laelia there are many beautiful varieties. Very remarkable are the 'albas' and 'semi-albas', but there are also the blue ones known as the 'coeruleas'.In nature the blue Cattleya species occur rarely and are extremely hard to find. Most of the 'blue' are of pale colour but every now and then, a 'blue' Cattleya of intense colour appears and if sold, the price is very high.
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Jeremiah COLMAN
In the 1930s Jeremiah COLMAN, a well known English orchid amateur was successful in breeding 'blue' Cattleyas. Cattleya Portia coerulea, Cattleya Ariel coerulea, Lc. Parystis coerulea and Blc. Victoria coerulea are just a few worth mentioning. Some of these Cattleyas still exist and are very popular.
Carson WHITLOW
In the 1960's Carson WHITLOW (U.S.A.) was one of the national and international well-known breeders in Blue Cattleyas. Since 1990 most of the Cattleya hybrids are bred in Taiwan or Japan. Breeding blue Cattleyas is seldom successful. The blue colour is only rarely inherited and often, the 'stud' plants are sterile. Should there be seedlings they grow very slowly.
But due to the never ending enthusiasm of some Orchid amateurs in cooperation with nurseries, quite a few hybrids have appeared, which are considered to be 'blue', and while in flower generate excitement in many private collections.
Cattleya Portia coerulea
On this page, we are proud to offer you a selection of fine and rare 'blue' Cattleya hybrids, which you can order from our orchid online shop. The parents of these species and hybrids have been carefully selected through the years. All plants offered are grown from seed, but be aware, there will be a spread in colour and intensity. With experience gained through many years, we have learnt, that cooler nights while the buds are developing will intensify the colour. If the flower develops during warm weather periods, the colour will be much paler.