This is Cattleya Gaskelliana Mimi x Aida a free bloomer. This plant (I have three) hasthirteen flowers right now. On the rightis a close up. Once I took the best one of the three to a show and some peopel thought it would win. However, it turns out some people think its a hybrid, not a true cross of two species. My friend Armando who bred it says it is two species. I believe him.
Above one more of my Laelia Purpuratas from Brazil
Ascocentrum Ampucellatum from Nepal a member of the Vanda family. Each flower is like 3/8 of an inch in size, very pretty
The Devil's Excrement 
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