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Orchid Species: Cattleya maxima
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Cattleya maxima is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1833.
Genus
Cattleya (C.)
Grex
maxima
(name currently accepted by Kew)
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
Lindl.
Year
1833
ORIGIN: From Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and northern coastal Peru that is found at elevations of 10 to 1500 meters in seasonally dry, coastal forests.
DESCRIPTION: A medium sized, cool to warm growing, unifoliate, epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with clavate, lightly complante, sulcate pseudobulbs subtended by several, imbricating, nonfoliaceous sheaths and a single, apical, oblong or narrowly elliptic-oblong, clasping, obtuse, minutely bilobed, thickly coriaceous leaf and blooms in the fall through the winter on a terminal, to 12 [30 cm] long, erect or arching, few to several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb subtended with a large, basal, elongate sheath from which arise 3 to 15, long-lived, fragrant, somewhat heavy textured flowers that are held just at or above leaf height.
FLOWER SIZE: 5 inches [12.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
DESCRIPTION: A medium sized, cool to warm growing, unifoliate, epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with clavate, lightly complante, sulcate pseudobulbs subtended by several, imbricating, nonfoliaceous sheaths and a single, apical, oblong or narrowly elliptic-oblong, clasping, obtuse, minutely bilobed, thickly coriaceous leaf and blooms in the fall through the winter on a terminal, to 12 [30 cm] long, erect or arching, few to several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb subtended with a large, basal, elongate sheath from which arise 3 to 15, long-lived, fragrant, somewhat heavy textured flowers that are held just at or above leaf height.
FLOWER SIZE: 5 inches [12.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
| Genus Name | Genus | Grex Name | Year | Author | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add+ | Cattleya | C | malouana | 1885 | Linden |
| Add+ | Epidendrum | Epi | maximum | 1861 | (Lindl.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers |
Most awarded/recent cultivars:
C. maxima 'Eisenheim'
(4 awards from
2012
to
2018)
C. maxima f. alba 'Donauperle'
(3 awards from
2013
to
2018)
C. maxima h.f. coerulea 'Anja'
(3 awards from
2014
to
2015)
C. maxima 'Donauperle'
(2 awards from
2016
to
2018)
C. maxima 'Excalibur'
(2 awards from
2016
to
2018)
C. maxima h.f. coerulea 'Chelsea's Smile'
(2 awards from
2014
to
2017)
C. maxima h.f. coerulea 'Manuel Moran'
(2 awards from
2011
to
2017)
C. maxima 'Hector'
(2 awards from
1991
to
2016)
C. maxima 'Elisabeth'
(2 awards from
2012
to
2015)
C. maxima 'Fishing Creek'
(2 awards in
2014)
C. maxima h.f. coerulea 'Dalles'
(2 awards from
2011
to
2012)
C. maxima h.f. coerulea 'Hector'
(2 awards from
2010
to
2012)
C. maxima f. alba 'Josue Alejandro'
(2 awards from
2006
to
2009)
C. maxima h.f. coerulea 'Inez'
(2019)
C. maxima h.f. coerulea 'Wedding Sky'
(2019)
C. maxima f. alba 'Memoria Ellen Oliveros'
(2018)
C. maxima h.f. semialba 'Eisenheim'
(2018)
C. maxima 'Chadwick's Dark'
(2018)
C. maxima 'Esslingen'
(2018)
C. maxima h.f. semialba 'Quito'
(2018)
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