HBI, Producer of Fine Orchids in Flask
Mick Fournier Updated: June 29, 2018
335 East Linton, B-14, unit 832115
Delray Beach, Florida 33483
954-957-3389
We ship to all countries in the world except Mexico, Austria, Denmark, Canary Islands Spain, and Australia which are still living in the primitive dark ages with respect to cooperatively allowing orchid flasks into these countries. For Brazil and Guadeloupe there is only a 50% chance a shipment will ever make it through their customs/extortions/robbery department. Everything sent to the Russian Federation is getting through customs nicely so far (a special thanks to orchid-lover Vladimir Putin). Germany is good, France is good, Israel and Sweden are good. Italy and Greece is still a little iffy but we now have a 75% confidence factor that our package will arrive without complications. We can now ship again to Ukraine with no restrictions by the US Postal Office. Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore remain good. There is a 50% chance Thailand customs agents will open the sterile flasks and stick a dirty disgusting inspection probe into the agar thereby contaminating the contents. Please note that we do not accept orders over the telephone. Review our catalog below, list your selections in an email and then simply request a quote from HBI by email on the orchid flasks of your choice, we will include shipping charges in our response:
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The Ghost Orchid, Polyrrhiza lindeni (old school name). HBI has been working on growing ghost orchids from seed for nearly 20 years ever since we first bought 3 ghost orchids flasks from Larry Evans. Larry did curating and flasking work for the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota. Selby once greenhoused the top premier specimens of this species. The ghost orchid parents used by Larry originated in the Fakahatchee Strand and were first bred by him many years before this species was designated as an endangered species. Fakahatchee ghost orchids with their longer frog- legs/tendrils and ghostly all-white flower surpass the truncated short-tendril inferior class lindeni green-flower ghost orchid pretenders named Dendrophylax sallei from Cuba and Dominican Republic in any competition and will always be the more valuable type of this vanishing species to own.
10 plants minimum, size ranges from three year old sprouts to 1/2" long legs.
$100. On Hold until plants are larger.
20 plants, size ranges from two year old sprouts to 1/4" long legs. $190. OK.
30 plants minimum, size is one to two year old sprouts. $280. OK.
40 plants minimum, size is one year old sprouts. $370. Out of Stock
100 plants minimum, size is one year old sprouts. $860. OK.
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Dendrophylax funalis. This short-tailed leafless orchid is native to Jamaica and a strong grower. Click here for YouTube video by Brad.
10 plants 1/2" to 1" long legs. $40 (forty dollars) only one flask at this time. See picture.
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Dendrophylax fawcetti. This long-tailed leafless orchid is native to the Cayman Islands found only in a 6 acre heavily-guarded portion within the Ironwood Forest in George Town. This species was named after William Fawcett in 1888. Click here for history. From the Private Collection. We are planning to offer a few retail-size flasks in October 2018.
7 to 10 plants with 2" long legs. $300 (three hundred dollars) only one flask available at this time.
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C. aclandiae (Wussyface x Helen Schwartz). I can't recall seeing an aclandiae in anyone's collection in the past 10 years... can you?
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $35.
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C. amethystoglossa (Mystery x Orchidglade). The stud plant Orchidglade is from the famous Jones & Scully Nursery which operated in Miami 1946-1992 until Hurricane Andrew. This plant was spectacular.
10 plants 1.5" to 2" tall. $30
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C. amethystoglossa (Ana Luisa x Vitoria). This cross is straight from the lab in Brazil. A close friend who made this cross named his two best specimen plants after his daughters.
10 plants 1" to 2" tall. $30
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C. araguaiensis x C. arguaiensis. We secured both parents direct from Brazil. These plants grow very well in Florida at sea level and regularly bloom in May.
10 plants 1" tall. $30, will be ready to ship safely in August 2018. Only 4 flasks.
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C. blossfelddiana (Mick CBR/AOS x type). We began breeding this rarely seen Cattleya in 2004, it is a definitely a favorite here in Florida.
10 - 15 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $30, we have two flasks available.
We have 2 divisions from the original C. blossfeldiana Mick CBR/AOS) which last bloomed 38 flowers. Click Here for larger size picture of the plant. Divisions are priced $60 to $85 each. Contact us for details and specific pictures of the division you desire to purchase.
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C. dowiana var aurea Excellente x self. Excellente is from Costa Rica. The flask of this selfing however came to us from the top private collection in Venezuela hand-carried by me back to Florida during Hugo Chavez's first term before the export of orchids were severely restricted by his goons/thugs.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $40
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C. dowiana (var aurea Del Valle x var splendens Cahiz Yryoyen). The purple lip Cahiz Yryoyen will not self and is quite difficult to breed with, our stud plant pollen parent is a mericlone of the original plant from the OFE family greenhouse. We originally set 6 seed pods for this grex but only one matured and we have been babying this crop for over a year now. Finding the right agar mixture has been unusually difficult but we have finally found the correct formula.
10 plants 1/2" to 1" tall. $45, will ship after August 2018.
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C. dowiana var splendens (Missionary Style X Cahiz-Yryoyen) from Costa Rica. Several years ago I obtained two plants of this dowiana variety from a missionary working in high altitude remote villages in Costa Rica. It took me 3 years to get these plants to properly acclimate to being grown at sea level in Florida. We eventually had a rather spectacular flowering from one of these Costa Rican plants (left side photo, pod parent) which exhibited exceptional first generation vibrant coloration. And as some of you know we have a mericlone of the OFE family's Cahiz-Yryoyen (right side photo, pollen parent) also which already grows well at sea level. In the summer of 2019 we hope to next list in our catalog retail flasks for sale of this purple lip variety splendens.
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C. dowiana var aurea (Miss Doggy Anna x Smuggler's Prize). 5 years ago in a faraway high-altitude Colombian jungle I met a disheveled half-naked wild-hair native wearing a loincloth, sandals, and a rucksack carrying a machete and a poison-tip blowdart gun. I had given up on finding the perfect C dowiana var aurea with clear nankeen yellow flowers and attempted to persuade this wild jungle man in a concocted sign language to find this elusive plant for me for a handsome fee. He replied in sign language with a yes and I was elated. As a double check I asked him one more time if he was certain he would recognize a Cattleya dowiana variety aurea in this forbidding foggy high-altitude land? He looked back at me through his wild dreadlocks and in perfect English replied, "of course I know what to look for, I have a masters in botany from North Carolina State". Two months later these two plants were delivered to me in Florida. I hope to offer retail flasks of this gorgeous first time cross in 2019.
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C. eldorado (Mt Ito x concolor (type 'XXX' x type var rubra)). We have had several requests over the past year for C eldorado but this species is very difficult to find in pure form anymore. Miami breeder Ernest Ivan has recently and graciously brought to us this cross which is now in mother flasks. We hope to be offering this selection for purchase in 2019. Picture is the pod parent Mt Ito. This selection is in intermediate flasks (1/2" tall) as of June 22, 2018. Replating to retail size bottles will take place before July 1.
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C. elongata. This species (from the old original JEM nursery in Florida) throws out a super long inflorescence, you can grow the plants in your backyard and bloom the flowers over in your neighbor's backyard. We have only 3 flasks.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $40.
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C. gaskelliana var coerulea (Mick's Flurry x (Baruta x self)). This cross will be our best attempt in 22 years at producing nice blue gaskelliana species.
10 plants 1/2" to 1" tall. $45. Should be safe/ready for shipping in August 2018.
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C. gaskelliana var alba White Walker. This fast growing super-floriferous breeder grew to be much too heavy for one person to lift. We recently divided this plant into 4 divisions. Two of the divisions are now for sale at $150 per division.
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C. guttata var coerulea. This blue lip variety is not often seen other than at a few Florida shows.
10 plants 1" tall. $30, check availability.
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C. hardyana. On page 71 of Carl Withner's book The Cattleyas and their Relatives Volume 1 is the most most beautiful white petals/sepals semialba hardyana (which is a natural occuring hybrid between C. aurea and C. warscewiczii) that I have ever seen in all of orchid breeding. We have crossed our C. warscewiczii semialba Shahbanu with pollen from our C. dowiana var aurea Cahiz-Yryoyen in hopes of matching the semialba in Withner's book. This selection is now in intermediate flasks and will be available in late 2018 or early 2019.
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C. intermedia ((Aquinii x gigantea 'Red') x coerulea 'Monsieur Bleu Blood'). The pollen parent Monsieur Bleu Blood (take a closer look at picture on the right) has blue raindrop blobs bleeding out of its throat very similar to a Miltonia orchid plus it has a very handsome flower shape. We are looking to the pod parent to bring deeper and more saturation of color to the progeny.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $25
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C. intermedia var coerulea Aquinii Blue Rhapsody x self. We have resurrected a few old flasks we bought years ago from Ruben Sauleda at RIO in Miami. This was one of Ruben's most favorite offerings before he sold the business. Picture is from this crop.
10 plants 1.5" tall.. $25.
20 plants 1' to 1.5" tall. $40. .
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C. labiata semialba var amesiana x self. Great color in the lip and superior form.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $30.
This selection is also available in 100 plant size flasks.
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C. labiata var coerulea ((D. Guile x Nice Lip) x Isawitfirst). We are hoping the dark blue lip coloration from the Isawitfirst pollen parent (picture on right) takes dominance and permeates the most of the flower on the offspring to produce some very rare concolors.
10 plants 1" tall. $30.
20 plants 1/2" to 1" tall. $50
100 plants 1/2" to 3/4" tall. $100
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C. loddigesi ((Impassionata x DeNarma) x Little Man AM/AOS). The offspring in this grex have a high probability of producing flowers that are very dark.
10 plants 1.5" to 2" tall. $35.
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C. lueddemanniana semialba (Delicata x self). In 1923 Miami became home to the famous Orchid Jungle which Tom Fennell III (Sr) with his father Lee operated until hurricane Andrew hit Florida in 1992 destroying his 70,000SF greenhouse. One of the orchids Tom Sr managed to save in this catastrophe was a division from a rare semi-translucent “Best Species in Show” Cattleya lueddemanniana semialba “Delicata” which was awarded at a Caracas Venezuelan National Show in 1986, a show at which he was invited to be an honorary judge "on Lend” from AOS United States. The Venezuelan owner of this amazing C lueddemanniana semialba Delicata plant gave to Tom Sr in friendship a division of this new champion. Tom Fennell Sr brought this breathtakingly beautiful plant back to Florida. After Hurricane Andrew Tom Jr trucked what was left of the Miami business up to Deerfield Beach and proceeded to have a fire sale on what was left of Tom Senior’s collection. Tom Sr won a Florida lottery jackpot of $6,700,000 in 1994 and decided overnight to retire from the orchid business. A few months later Tom junior sold a division of this coveted plant to me for $1,000 during their “going out of business sale”. Below, January 2018 picture left. February 2018 picture right. Focus in on the center of the picture on the right, notice that you can see the colored lip of the flower behind the petal... this is the translucence "test" of the Delicata.
10 plants in flask. 1" to 1.5" tall. $35.
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C. lueddemanniana var coerulea ((Mariauxi x Francisco) x (La Orquidea x Azul)). 7 years ago we bought a division of Armando Mantellini's first choice breeder Mariauxi x Francisco. For substance, size and shape you can't beat the MxF. Our MxF flowers measure 7 inches tip to tip, see picture on left side... we look for huge flowers from this new grex. For the dark blue velvet lip, it would be hard to ever beat our La Orquidea x Azul stud pollen parent shown on the right side.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $40
We have one division from our Mariauxi x Francisco for sale. $375
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C. lueddemanniana var coerulea ((Kathleen x Francisco) x (((Siqui Siqui x Amparo) x (Mariauxi x Franciso)) x Crystelle)). Francisco is nearly the perfect blue luedde, but it will not self. In this new cross we are using Francisco genetic material in two of the 3-way parents. We are hoping for a majority of the offspring to have the rich (Kathleen x Francisco) blue color and large size along with the exceptional Krull-Smith Crystelle form/substance.
10 plants 1.5" to 2" tall. $40
20 plants 1" tall. $55
30 plants 1" tall. $65
We have one previously bloomed division from our Kathleen x Francisco stud plant for sale. $150
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C lueddemannina var coerulea ((La Orquidea x Azul) x Peter Von Scholl). We made and sold this cross 5 years ago. The quantity of seed germinating properly was below our expectations but we managed to bring 7 retail flasks to this website. We only sold 5 flasks of this blue species and grew out the last two bottles in house. If I could get those 5 bottles back now I would pay 5 times over what I charged for them back in 2013. We regret selling those very limited edition 5 flasks. Ah well, live and learn I suppose. We are using this pictured plant as a stud in 2018.
We do have one additional 16-bulb potted plant for sale. $350, one plant only in stock.
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C. lueddemanniana var coerulea (((SiquiSiqui x Amparo) x (Mariauxi x Francisco)) x Crystelle). We made this cross about 6 years ago, the flasks are long gone sold out. Our greenhouse has had these plants in bloom for the past 2 years. Last year we found an unusual concolor with large 8" wide flowers that now commands our undivided attention every February. Some people are saying we should offer this specimen quality plant to a breeder looking to sire huge blue offspring for many thousands of dollars. It's funny how everyone wants huge blue species lueddemannianas, but in real life often no one can afford the price for such perfection. Tsk, tsk, what a shame... would you not agree?
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10 plants 1" to 1" tall. $60, First batch is sold out. Next batch will be available in August 2018.
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C. lueddemanniana var rubra ((Laluz x Infierno) x (Sarita x Yamile)). Rich deep red magenta velvety concolor parents. Laluz x Infierno on the left. Sarita x Yamile on the right.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $30, will ship in August 2018.
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C. lueddemanniana var rubra (Sarita x Yamile). These vibrant pearlescent plum/magenta colored flowers are a huge 6"-7" across with good substance blooming Dec - Feb like clockwork.
10 plants 1" tall. $40.
Division of this first select breeder, 6-bulbs. $125, picture available on request.
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10 plants 1" tall. $35, we plan to begin first shipments in September 2018.
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C. lueddemanniana var grandiflora ((Mariauxi x Maruja) x (Morella x Cecilia)). This richly-colored heavy-substance cross produces the largest flowers in the greenhouse at 7" measured tip-to-tip across the petals. Peter Von Scholl brought us this seed pod from Miami one year before his tragic death. Peter knew this cross was going to produce monster size flowers from Day One. Remarkably we sold only a dozen retail size flasks from this grex 2013 - 2016.
Demand was low... I have often wondered why sales were so low? After looking at this picture do you wonder why also?
10 plants 1" tall. $40. We will have 4 flasks in September 2018.
Division of our first select breeder, 5-6 bulbs. $100, picture available on request.
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C. maxima var semialba. This is your normal typical semialba of this species. New replates should be safe to ship by June 2018.
10 plants 1" to 2" tall. $25
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C. maxima var coerulea (Alexandra x self) subvar venas. 6 years ago I bought a flask of C. maxima var coerulea (Alexandra x self) containing 24 plants which all turned out like the picture on the right. One plant produced flowers as a subvar venas where all the darker blue color in the lip was genetically pulled apart and distributed in the sepals and the petals as splotches, see April 10, 2018 picture on the left or click here. We have one divission from this unusual plant for sale.
One division $600. Picture avaiable.
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C. mossiae var coerulea (Maj x (Mr 4 x Andreas Arturo)). Blue parents, good show. Maj on the left. (Mr 4 x Andreas Arturo) picture on the right.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $30, On Hold until more root growth. We might be able to ship again in the Fall 2018.
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C. mossiae var semialba (Mick x (Consuelo x Mercedes Sin)). We are resurrecting one of our old crosses for 2018. We hope to have 2 or 3 flasks available in June 2018 suitable for shipping after more root growth in the new bottles.
10 plants 1" tall. Check back in June 2018.
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C. mossiae coerulea ((SVO x Blue Lip) x (Maj x self)). This should be our best blue mossiae so far. We plan to offer this selection in 2019.
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C. nobilior var coerulea (Francisco x Gold Country).
10 plants 1" to 2" tall. $35.
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C. percivaliana var alba ((Sonia x self) x Sonia). We are reactivating Armando Mantellini's old backcross on this perfect alba.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $40, only 3 flasks available.
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C. percivaliana (Summit FCC x Teresa Antonio AM/AOS). This is a cross we made 4 years ago, the flasks are long ago sold out. The flower picture is one of our first bloomers from the cross of these two AOS champions. The vivid electric orange coloration in the column is stunning and was quite a hoped-for dream come true in this breeding laboratory dedicated to the continuation of such fine rare Cattleya species.
10 plants in flask. Sold Out.
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C. porphyroglossa. Ahhhh the smell of chocolate... we love that fragrance in the greenhouse.
Retail flasks are in production. Limited. Make inquiry if interested.
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C. rex from Moyobamba Peru. Are you one of those truly orchid afficionado growers that has to have the most rare species? Well, you're certainly in luck today.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $35.
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C . schoffeldiana ((Helen x Bruce) x sib). We're in the process of bringing back this selection by a new sib cross of a selection we used to offer 10 years ago. We have crossed our two best select offspring plants from the original cross. This sib cross is now in mother flask.
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C. schroederae (SVO AM/AOS x concolor Rosalia). A few years ago we bought a division of the SVO (L), but have held off using it as a stud plant until recently when we were graciously offered some pollen from the rarely seen gorgeous concolor Rosalia (R) in Miami. This cross will surely be absolutely exquisite with perfect form. We will be offering this selection for sale in the fall of 2019.
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C. schroederae var citrina. In Florida our Cattleya schroederae bloom in January and February. Our original flask from 5 years ago came directly from Colombia and the breeder claimed the parents were 1st generation wild collected plants.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $35
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C. trianaei var coerulea (OKF2485 x Lunara). Exquisite multiflora sylphlike ethereal OKF2485 (L) softly summons your touch and beckons your eyes/nose so much closer. Lunara (R) brings majesty and spiking height to the cross.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $40.
50 plants minimum 1/2" tall. $125.
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C. trianaei var coerulea (OKF 2485 x Quimbaya). Two outstanding specimen quality coerulea trianaei species. We hope to begin offering this cross in the fall of 2019.
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C. trianaei semialba (Mick's Quest x White Chimera). Both plants have flowers with no pink or bluish tinge in the sepals/petals even though the White Chimera (pollen from famed Venezuelan breeder Armando Mantellini) on the right side seems to have a very light blue tinge, it is an artifact from insufficient lighting at dusk. Currently in mother flask. We will be offering this semialba in 2019.
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C. trianaei var coerulea (OKF 2485 x (Luna Musica x Blue Diamond)). We are looking to see this selection made available in the summer of 2019.
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C. trianaei (Aranka Germaske FCC/AOS x coerulea OKF2485). The Aranka Germaske was awarded an FCC in 1956. I acquired a division from Helen Schwartz in Miami who was a close friend of John Germaske. For 15 years I have been trying to breed this plant every single year. For 14 years I have failed. I have never heard of the AG breeding with anything or selfing. The old know-it-all geezers and puffed-up babushkas down in Miami say the Aranka won't breed because it is a muscle-bound brute-ish polypoid mutant... and I believe them.
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However in 2017 I am most pleased to announce we have had a change in luck and finally have a trianaei cross (albeit in very limited quantity) using our Aranka Germaske as the pod parent bred to our best trianaei coerulea.
10 plants in flask. 1" to 1.5" tall. $100.
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We have mounted established previously-bloomed divisions of the Aranka Germaske priced $300 (3-bulb) to $1,000 (12-bulb). We will provide specifics and pictures upon request.
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C. velutina (JAM x JEM). When is the last time you saw a Cattleya velutina? Or perhaps more specifically, have you ever seen one?
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $30
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C. violacea var coerulea Fabio Nahas x self. Straight from Brazil. Very unusual coerulea of this species. Glassine sepals and petals. Center of flower blue will take your breath away.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. Out of Stock.
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C. violacea semi alba (Icabaru x self). Icabaru which is owned by Armando Mantellini is an unusual semi alba with a uniform red column. The original plant was photographed once more in Miami June 2013 and is shown here on the left. The offspring has shown a propensity to occasionally produce bright contrasting white sepals and solid red petals which always turn out to be highly coveted as seen in picture on right.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. Out of Stock, check back in August 2018.
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C. violacea semi alba (Icabaru x Hector Luis). Icabaru is an unusual semi alba with a uniform bright red column. Crossed with the #2 outstanding semialba from Colombia. This cross has occasionally produced bright contrasting white sepals and solid fire engine red petals.
10 plants 1.5" to 2" tall. $40.
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C . walkeriana (Yamaguchi x Ponso Alto x coerulea Edward). Two top notch specimen plants from our greenhouse of exceptionally good form and beauty. We hope to be able to offer this new cross in retail size flasks in May 2018.
50 plants protocorm to 1/4" tall in intermediate flask. $45.
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C. warscewiczii var coerulea (Angarita x self). Legend has it that Colombian rebel Farc Comandante Angarita was the role model for the 'Most Interesting Man' in the Dos Equis beer commercial on TV. He was one bad-ass hombre first, a real ladies' man second and amateur orchid collector third. While chilling out far away from Government soldiers hunting him in the jungle he stumbled upon a stand of a few hundred wild growing warscewiczii plants. One of those plants had very rare blue flowers. Senor Angarita shot it out of the tree as it perched high up in the sunny canopy above. Three years later when slowly dying from an old bullet wound to the kidney he sold that plant for $6,000 to a Venezuelan electrical engineer stringing new high voltage wire through the jungle. That electrical engineer turned out to be a full-fledged orchid collector who eventually selfed that plant in his lab and sold some of the first flasks to me which should in turn upon your purchase make you "by 6 degrees of separation" much more interesting than you are today. Note: when repotting this species, do not disturb the old growth. Orchids Limited sells potted plants for $450 each and has a nice YouTube video on these specific plants. Click Here to watch.
50 plants 1" tall. $175.
500 plants 1/2" to 1" tall. $600.
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C. warscewizii var coerulea ((Angarita x self) x Saint 4). We have high hopes that the strong blue color in these two specimen plants will be carried into the progeny along with the great form seen in the Saint 4 pollen parent. We could be offering retail flasks in late summer 2019.
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C. warscewiczii (semialba Shahbanu x coerulea (Angarita x self)). The pod parent plant is named after and in respect of the last queen of Iran, Empress Farah Pahlavi, before Ayatollah Khomeini and his 14th century thugs overthrew the Shah. I had the pleasure of personally meeting the Empress in Isfahan many years ago and this plant (left) was named in honor of her Highness. Coerulea (Angarita x self) is on the right.
50 plants 1/2" tall. $100
100 plants 1/2" tall. $160
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C. warneri var coerulea (Rio Casca x Blue City). This cross was made in Brazil using first generation jungle collected parents. We acquired a flask directly from the breeder's laboratory in Brazil and are still drawing plants from that first purchase.
10 plants 1" tall. $30.
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C. warneri var coerulea (Henrique x Code Blue). Four years ago I bought a division of the Henrique directly from Henrique Graf (see picture on the left). This might be the best C warneri coerulea in existence. Our lab has bred this plant with our best new coerulea specimen plant in the greenhouse named Code Blue (see picture on the right). This batch will be limited.
10 plants 1" tall. $40, as available.
We have separated the unusually husky fast-growing Code Blue stud plant into four pieces. Three divisions of 7-bulbs each are for sale now. In Florida this species blooms in December. $200 each division.
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BC ((C aurantiaca x B glauca) x C lueddemanniana coerulea (La Orquidea x Azul)). I stopped making hybrid orchids many years ago but in 2015 I couldn't resist taking some pollen from the best ever dark blue lipped C lueddemanniana orchid and putting it into one of my first BC hybrids, the very handsome waxy fragrant bright orange BC (C aurantiaca x B glauca). We are hoping to see an orange flower with a huge dark velvety blue lip which should in theory be at least 25% of the plantlets in this grex.
10 plants 1" to 2" tall. $40, This is a favorite of the Russians perhaps for the bold color combination.
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BLC ((C aurantiaca x B glauca) x (C dowiana x L purpurata var striata Peppermint Splash)). The Peppermint Splash parent is direct from Orchid Jungle in Miami, after Hurricane Andrew Tom Fennell Junior allowed us to borrow this famed breeder for 5 months to make the LC cross. Our friends in Russia requested some Laelia purpurata added to this mix and so we will now have a BLC forthcoming in 2018. This cross is in intermediate flask now.
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Laelia alaorii. Rarely seen creeper novelty miniature from Bahia Brazil. One or two pale-lilac flowers per growth.
Make Inquiry to Check on Availability.
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L. purpurata var schusteriana ((Misty x Limerick) x sib). I am fairly certain that this first Misty x Limerick union of two superior species stud plants was Helen Schwartz's last cross made in her old Miami greenhouse/laboratory. We subsequently used the two best offspring from that swarm for this new cross. Helen named all her favorite orchids Misty after one of her most favorite Great Dane dogs... and she had many. We intent to offer this selection in retail flasks in 2019.
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Bulbophyllum medusae. The amazing "hairy" orchids, many umbels of cream colored flowers resembling stringy mopheads hanging down from the plant.
10 plants 1.5" to 2" tall. Out of Stock. Check back in August 2018.
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Catasetum pileatum var Imperialis cultivar Donna #1 x self. Half of this run bloom the more desirable mahogany coloration on the males (right side). 10% or less of all flowers blooming will be female (left picture). Included pictures are offspring from this actual batch.
10 plants 2" to 5" tall. $30.
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Trichocentrum stacyi (formerly named Oncidium stacyi aka wittii). Has been formally named stacyi (Oppenheim, 1926). Terete leaf, vigorous grower. Dr Guido Braem says this species from Bolivia is now quite rare. We grow this plant like a Paraphalaenopsis mounted and leaves pointing downward. Our top two stud plants have produced a strong new crop which is in intermediate flasks now.
10 plants in flask 2" minimum tall. $40.
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Psychopsis versteegiana. 3-5 single successive blooming flowers. From Surinam, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia at 200 - 1200 meters elevation.
10 plants 1.5" to 2" tall. $35
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Phal violacea var murtoniana. Borneo type sib cross, strong parents threw up large fragrant simultaneous blooming 3-5 flowers.
10 plants 1.5" leaf span. Temporarily Out of Stock.
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Phal violacea ((var coerulea Blue Taiwan x coerulea Blue Krull) x murtoniana). Picture of P violacea var bellina coerulea (Blue Taiwan x Blue Krull) on left side. P violacea var murtoniana on right.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" leaf span. Out of Stock, check back in March 2018.
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Phal violacea (Indigo x (var bellina coerulea Blue Taiwan x coerulea Blue Krull)). The indigo (picture on the right) is from the Krull-Smith collection.
10 plants 1.5" to 2.5" leaf span. $90.
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Phalaenopsis violacea coerulea ((Jessie x 4th of July) x self). More to say... in due time. To be announced for sale in 2019.
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Neofinetia falcata (Hichou x Fukiden). Hichou on the left is characterized by deep purple pigmentation in the basal portion of the plant leaves. Fukiden on the right is the famous number one NF in Japan displaying beautiful yellow variegation in the leaves with perfectly formed flowers. We are hoping for a lot of purple color in the leaves and vibrant yellow variegation along the leaf edges.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. $50.
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Neofinetia falcata (Tougen x Shutennou). Tougen is the largest Neofinetia falcata flower that we know of in existence times the old line standard in red/pink tailed NFs, the Shutennou as shown on the right side.
10 plants in flask "1 to 1.5" tall. $35
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Neofinetia falcata var raikoumaru. Mericlone of this solid pink species.
10 plants 1" to 1.5" tall. Sorry this is no longer available, the entire selection sold out quickly. .
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Neofinetia falcata (variegated Higashidemiyako x ((Amani Pink x Syoujou Red) x Shutennou)). We are trying once again with another variegated clone to achieve red flowers on a variegated leaf plant.
10 plants 1" tall. $50
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Neofinetia falcata (Tougen x Fukiden). Tougen is the largest Neofinetia falcata flower that we know of in existence, the flower is bigger than a US quarter coin. The pollen parent variegated leaf Fukiden is of course the number one undisputed champion in Japan for many years running.
10 plants 1.5" talll. $50.
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Neofinetia falcata (((Amani Pink x Syoujou Red) x Shutennou) x Fukiden). Our best colored Neofinetia falcata specimen to date crossed with the best (and highest awarded) Neofinetia falcata in the world.
10 plants 1.5" to 2" tall. $100
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Neofinetia falcata (((Amani Pink x Syoujou Red) x Shutennou) x sib). This is our best colored Neofinetia falcata cross to date.
10 plants 1/2" to 1" tall. $55
We do have well-established previously-bloomed potted plants of the NF ((Amani Pink x Syoujou Red) x Shutennou) cross available upon request.
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