Orchids

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A Cattleya hybrid (mander.xyz)

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Singapore Cloud Forest

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Unknown Rhyncholaelia/Cattleya hybrid (mander.xyz)

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Cloud forest Singapore.

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Chysis laevis [OC] (mander.xyz)

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Chysis laevis Lindl.

OC = Own Collection

This orchid opened three flowers, which were open only a few days. I suspect that they self-pollinated somehow, but I'm not sure. (They now have "thick" fruit-like parts.) I couldn't detect any smell.

Chysis is in subtribe Bletiinae according to Wikipedia, and in subtribe Chysinae according to Genera Orchidacearum Vol. 4. I couldn't find how the RHS classifies it. In any case, the genus is in tribe Epidendreae, which also includes subtribe Laeliinae.

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Myrmecocattleya Luster 'Gazelle' [OC] (mander.xyz)

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OC = Own Collection

I bought this in January 2023.

Myrmecocattleya Luster = Cattleya forbesii × Myrmecophila thomsoniana

Both species are in the subtribe Laeliinae.

I believe I smelled a very faint perfume, but I'm not 100% sure.

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Aranda Majula 'Rimau' (mander.xyz)

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National Orchid Garden, Singapore.

Aranda Majula = Arachnis Maggie Oei × Vanda insignis

Arachnis Maggie Oei = Arachnis hookeriana × Arachnis flos-aeris

Both Vanda and Arachnis are in the subtribe Aeridinae.

I don't remember whether the flowers were perfumed or not, but they may have been, like Papilionanda Mimi Palmer, another Vanda hybrid that can be seen (and smelled) at the National Orchid Garden.