Orchid Borealis

I received this plant as a small seedling from Olympic Orchids 10 years ago.  This species recycles old flowering stalk, so new flowering branches are added to the old ones.  It was growing in an area where many orchids were forming a tangled mess.  I had to re-pot it, and during the process of extraction, I probably lost 30-40% of buds (broke a couple branches). Phalaenopsis mariae is from Philippines (Luzon, Mindoro, Mindanao, and Sulu-Archipelago) and north eastern tip of Borneo Island, growing under 600m of elevation.  It seems to do well under an intermediate temperature, and moderate amount of light. Dissected flower.  The scale below is mm.  The right petal, dorsal sepal, and right lateral sepal are showing the adaxial sufrace (i.e., the side facing front of the flower opposite of the stem).  The abaxial surface (closer to the stem, back-side) is shown for the left petal and lateral sepal. The Lip before the removal of the side-lobes.  It has somewhat "diamond"-shape

Cattleya harrisoniana Cattleya loddigesii and Cattleya harrisoniana are beautiful species; the shape of the flower is well-proportioned and appealing to me.  I'm not completely sure if my plants are correctly identified, but I decided to make a comparison between them since they flowered at the same time since these two species look very similar. The web pages of Miranda Orchids used to contain extensive information about Cattleya .  Unfortunately, these pages were gone after the redesign.  But the previous informative web site can be found in Internet Archive ( link ), and the differences of C. loddigesii and C. harrisoniana are described here .  According to the web page, the geographic distributions of these two species are mostly not overlapping; C. harrisoniana in the east, coastal region and C. loddigesii in the west, interior region of Brazil.  there are some area where two species co-occur.  The flowering season is different; C. loddigesii is fall flowering while C.