( Cyc. Jumbo Cooper 'SVO' AM/AOS x Cyc. Swan Cascade 'Best Select' )
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The flower quality, size and count (18 on a single inflorescence) of Jumbo Cooper 'SVO' are impressive. It was bred from the rare green cultivar Cyc. cooperi 'Green Emerald' HCC/AOS and the very fine Cyc. warscewiczii 'SVO' AM/AOS. Swan Cascade (cooperi x Jean E. Monnier) is incredibly floriferous, with an average stem carrying 35-45 flowers in colors favoring the rich bronze/chocolate colors of cooperi. The double influence of cooperi will assure high flower count (expect 25 blooms per stem), and the dose of warscewiczii will improve flower shape and produce shield-shaped lips. Flower colors will be green-bronze, with some flowers sporting burgundy spotting. All in all, this is a good one. (Description and Photos: Fred Clarke of Sunset Valley Orchids) (SVO 8081)
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( Cyc. Cryminy 'Killer' x Cyc. Richard Brandon 'SVO II' AM/AOS )
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Cyc. Cryminy (Richard Brandon x Cyc. Kevin Clarke) ‘Killer’ has color never before seen in a Cycnoches. The base color is bronze/yellow, with bold burgundy spots that coalesce into large solid patches, set off by a contrasting white lip. Just remarkable! Richard Brandon (warscewiczii x Jean E. Monnier) produces robust-growing plants that are easy to bloom, with high-quality well-shaped flowers. This outstanding grex is becoming my go-to parent for making modern Cycnoches hybrids. What will this cross deliver? I expect novel flower color combinations in gold and bronze, deeply spotted with burgundy. Plants should produce 15-20 flowers per inflorescence. As a bonus, these will be easy to grow and flower. The reciprocal cross is available as SVO 8172, providing a rare opportunity to see how capsule and pollen parents differ in their contribution to the offspring. (Description and Photos: Fred Clarke of Sunset Valley Orchids) (SVO 7691)
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Common Name: Warscewicz's Cycnoches [Polish Orchid Collector 1800's] Flower Size: 5" or less [7.5 cm or less] This plant is found in central Costa Rica to Colombia and is an epiphytic, deciduous, medium sized, warm growing orchid found on trees and rotten logs and occasionally as a terrestrial beside rotten logs at elevatiions of 700 to 1000 meters. The new lead for the pseudobulb arises in April and quickly grows to a height of 12" with 14" [30 to 40 cm] leaves until it blooms in September-October as or after it drops it's leaves. At this time no water should be given until the new lead appears in April and it is at least 2" tall. Heavy fertilizing should follow the same schedule with a bloom buster applied once or twice in August-September. Heavily scented 4" flowers are arranged in a pendant, racemose, several flowered inflorescence arising from the leaf nodes at the apex of the newest, mature, leafless pseudobulb. Synonyms Cycnoches tonduzii Schltr. 1923; Cycnoches ventricosum Bateman var warscewiczii [Rchb.f]P.H.Allen 1952 http://www.orchidspecies.com/cychwars.htm I believe this pairing of Cyc. warscewiczii will yield the highest quality flowers to date and will set a new standard for this desirable species. Both of these highly select cultivars came from the earlier cross of ('SVO' AM/AOS x 'SVO II' AM/AOS). 'Giant Swan' is one of my best, with very large flowers, and has produced 3-4 inflorescences per pseudobulb. 'OMG Giant' has the largest flower with the widest petals and can carry 7 flowers per inflorescence. I cannot imagine a better pairing. These are perfect for the discriminating collector who wants the very best examples of this amazing species. ( Description courtesy Fred Clarke of Sunset Valley Orchids ) (SVO 8079)
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( Fredclarkeara Enter Light 'SVO Dark Beauty' FCC/AOS x Catasetum Orchidglade 'JTM' )
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Fredclarkeara breeding is just fantastic, with hybrids having beautiful color, superior shape, high flower count, and perfectly arranged flowers that are fragrant and very long lasting. Enter Light (After Dark x pileatum) has been “spot on” in flower quality, with four AM/AOS and one FCC/AOS awarded so far! Orchidglade 'JTM' is short for 'Jamie's Tortured Midnight' (pileatum x expansum). This is a very fine cultivar, with exceptionally dark flowers and huge, flat lips. Enter Light is already amazing, and adding back the huge pileatum-based lip of Orchidglade will further increase and flatten the flower and lip size of the progeny, while maintaining the amazing color. I'm not sure how a cross can get any better than this...
Left Photo: Fredkclarkeara Enter Light 'SVO Dark Beauty' FCC/AOS Right Photo: Catasetum Orchidglade 'JTM'S
Description and photos courtesy of Fred Clarke, Sunset Valley Orchids |
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( Fredclarkeara Enter Light 'SVO Dark Beauty' FCC/AOS x Catasetum Orchidglade 'JTM' )
(Fdk. After Hours 'Dark Thirty' x Fdk. Enter Light 'SVO Dark Beauty' FCC/AOS)
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Fredclarkeara breeding is just fantastic, with hybrids having beautiful color, superior shape, high flower count, and perfectly arranged flowers that are fragrant and very long lasting. Enter Light (After Dark x pileatum) has been “spot on” in flower quality, with four AM/AOS and one FCC/AOS awarded so far! Orchidglade 'JTM' is short for 'Jamie's Tortured Midnight' (pileatum x expansum). This is a very fine cultivar, with exceptionally dark flowers and huge, flat lips. Enter Light is already amazing, and adding back the huge pileatum-based lip of Orchidglade will further increase and flatten the flower and lip size of the progeny, while maintaining the amazing color. I'm not sure how a cross can get any better than this...
Left Photo: Fredkclarkeara Enter Light 'SVO Dark Beauty' FCC/AOS Right Photo: Catasetum Orchidglade 'JTM'S
Description and photos courtesy of Fred Clarke, Sunset Valley Orchids |
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( Fredclarkeara Enter Light 'SVO Dark Beauty' FCC/AOS x Catasetum Orchidglade 'JTM' )
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Fredclarkeara breeding is just fantastic, with hybrids having beautiful color, superior shape, high flower count, and perfectly arranged flowers that are fragrant and very long lasting. Enter Light (After Dark x pileatum) has been “spot on” in flower quality, with four AM/AOS and one FCC/AOS awarded so far! Orchidglade 'JTM' is short for 'Jamie's Tortured Midnight' (pileatum x expansum). This is a very fine cultivar, with exceptionally dark flowers and huge, flat lips. Enter Light is already amazing, and adding back the huge pileatum-based lip of Orchidglade will further increase and flatten the flower and lip size of the progeny, while maintaining the amazing color. I'm not sure how a cross can get any better than this...
Left Photo: Fredkclarkeara Enter Light 'SVO Dark Beauty' FCC/AOS Right Photo: Catasetum Orchidglade 'JTM'S
Description and photos courtesy of Fred Clarke, Sunset Valley Orchids |
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( Cl. Grace Dunn 'Live Oak' HCC/AOS x Morm. hookeri 'Fuzz' )
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Grace Dunn (warczewitzii x rosea) produces 15 or more pink and green flowers with cute frilly lips on 3-4 pendulous inflorescences from leafless bulbs in mid-winter. Morm. hookeri is one of my favorite Mormodes species, and this clone has a very dark red flower with a textured lip reminiscent of black velvet – very unusual. Mormodes are dominant for color transmission, so expect flowers in shades of red to dark red with darker lips. Some lips might even be a bit fuzzy.
Description and photos courtesy of Fred Clarke of Sunset Valley Orchids |
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( Cl. Rebecca Northen 'Grapefruit Pink' x Morm. Mimi 'Wide Segments' ) (SVO 8187 and 7711 )
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Cl. Rebecca Northen (Grace Dunn x rosea) is a well-recognized plant and an important parent for breeding. It is easy to grow and has beautiful, frilly pink flowers with a marvelous citrus fragrance, produced on multiple pendent inflorescences. Morm. Mimi (lawrenceana x ignea) is very floriferous, blooming with 2-3 upright inflorescences per bulb, each carrying 12-15 flowers in beautiful orange tones covered in fine burgundy spots. This cultivar also has very wide petals that give the blooms a fullness not often seen in Mormodes. These will flower late in the year with cascades of 12-15 flowers in shades of orange to pink. Mormodias make spectacular plants at maturity, producing lots of charming flowers that cascade over the sides of the pot.
Description and photos courtesy of Fred Clarke of Sunset Valley Orchids |
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( Cl. Grace Dunn 'Live Oak' HCC/AOS x Morm. Jumbo Bacia 'SVO' AM/AOS )
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Grace Dunn (warczewitzii x rosea) carries 15+ pink and green flowers with cute frilly lips on 3-4 pendulous inflorescences from leafless bulbs in mid-winter. Morm. Jumbo Bacia (badia x uncia) 'SVO' is surprisingly floriferous, holding up to 37 dark maroon red flowers on each stem. Mormodes is dominant for several characteristics, and this grex will bloom late in the season, with flowers in colors ranging from red to bronze, and a high flower count of 20-25 on each inflorescence. These also will begin to flower at a young age, generally in 3” pots. Once mature, Mormodias (Clowesia x Mormodes) make excellent specimen plants, flowering profusely with many pendulous inflorescences.
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Cl. Grace Dunn (Cl. rosea x Cl. warczewitzii) blooms in mid-winter on leafless plants with 15 or more pink and green flowers with cute frilly lips and a wonderful citrus fragrance on multiple pendent inflorescences. Morm. tapoayensis has a dark purple flower with darker spots in deep burgundy - the color is really unusual. Mormodes are dominant for flower color, and we expect the flowers of the offspring to be darkly pigmented with some darker spotting. Plants with multiple pendulous inflorescences carrying 12-16 flowers each. This is a remake of a highly successful cross. The first time these were produced, Barnabas Collins 'SVO Dark Night' received a First Class Certificate. When awarded, the plant carried 117 flowers and buds on 7 inflorescences, all from a single pseudobulb! ( Description by Fred Clarke of Sunset Valley Orchids )
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Clowesia Rebecca Northen (Cl. Grace Dunn x Cl. rosea) is a well-recognized plant and very good for breeding. It is easy to grow and has beautiful frilly pink flowers with a marvelous citrus fragrance, held on multiple pendent inflorescences. Morm. Nitty Gritty (Exotic Treat x rolfeana) has deeply-colored flowers with gold lips and red petals and sepals. Flowers are large, and the plants are very floriferous. These will flower late in the year, with cascades of 12-15 flowers in shades of yellow/orange to rose, many with dark spots. Mormodias result when a Clowesia and a Mormodes are combined, and they make spectacular hybrids. Mature plants produce lots of charming flowers that cascade over the sides of the pot. ( Description credit to Fred Clarke of Sunset Valley Orchids ) |
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| Mormodes Midnight is an orchid hybrid originated by Unknown in 1999. It is a cross of Morm. buccinator x Morm. sinuata. It is considered a "primary hybrid" because it is a cross between two species.
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Mormodes Midnight Hooker is an orchid hybrid originated by F.Clarke in 2010. It is a cross of Morm. Midnight x Morm. hookeri.
Midnight (Morm. sinuata x Morm. buccinator) has a rich burgundy red flower color. Morm. hookeri is a deep burgundy flower with a black fuzzy lip, very cool! The expectation is for improved size and 10-15, dark red-burgundy flowers on good stem. Some will have the fuzzy lips…. ( SVO 1829)
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(SVO 5037) Here is an advanced Mormodes hybrid, these are much easier to grow that their species counter parts. Jumbo Bacia (Morm. badia x Morm. uncia) produces up to 37 flowers per inflorescence in a dark burgundy-red color. Virgen del Valle (Morm. sinuata x Morm. hookeri) produces up to 25 flowers per inflorescence in a dark burgundy color with a fuzzy near black lip. Very cool looking Mormodes flowers in dark burgundy on easier to grow plants. Well worth a try. (Description credit: Fred Clarke of Sunset Valley Orchids)
Mormodes Mark Mills is an orchid hybrid originated by F.Clarke in 2013. It is a cross of Morm. Jumbo Bacia x Morm. Virgen del Valle.
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