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SVO 10173
Lc. Tiny Blue (Lc. Mini Blue Star 'SVO Blues' HCC/AOS x Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea 4N')
Mini Blue Star (Lc. Mini Purple x Lc. Cornelia) blooms with 5” coerulea flowers and darker coerulea lips on plants just 6-7” tall. Mini Purple is well known as a quality breeder, and this 4N cultivar has made some great hybrids.  What do we expect from this cross?  The main goals are improving flower color and keeping plant size under 6” tall. An excellent quality of this cross is that flowers will be large compared to the plant stature of this easy-to-grow hybrid.  The reciprocal is SVO 10351. A fantastic opportunity to evaluate the effect of capsule vs. pollen parent.
3” pots $18

Lc. Mini Blue Star 'SVO Blues' HCC/AOS	Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea 4N'

SVO 10281
Lc. NEW HYBRID (Lc. Moonlight Dream 'Moonlight Kiss' AM/AOS x Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea 4n')
Moonlight Dream (C. Love Knot x C. intermedia f. aquinii) is a compact grower with fantastic, coeruela flared flower. Unusually for a coerulea, it blooms in early March, which is quite early. Mini Purple is also a March bloomer with a second flowering in July.  About 50 % of the cross will be flared, and all will flower in early March and possibly again in summer. Plants will be mini-Catts with large flowers compared to the plant size. So far, we flowered a solid coerulea and this one, take a look at this PICTURE…. Wow! This came out nice!
3” pots $18

Lc. Moonlight Dream 'Moonlight Kiss' AM/AOS	Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea 4n'

SVO 10342
Lc. Mini Blue Star (Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea 4n' x Lc. Cornelia 'Floralia')
This is an outstanding hybrid that produces many fine cultivars. All of these will have coerulea petals and sepals with dark blue lips and a yellow spot in the throat. The plants will be mini-Catts standing barely 6” tall with flowers 3.5” across. This is a really good cross! We also made this with the parents in the reverse order (a reciprocal cross) – see SVO 10772.  It’s always interesting to see compare results from reciprocal crosses using the same parents.
3” pots $18

Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea 4n'	Lc. Cornelia 'Floralia'

SVO 10351
Lc. Tiny Blue (Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea 4n' x Lc. Mini Blue Star 'SVO Blues' HCC/AOS)
Mini Purple is well known as a quality breeder, and this 4N cultivar has made some great hybrids. Mini Blue Star (Lc. Mini Purple x Lc. Cornelia) blooms with 5” coerulea flowers and darker coerulea lips on plants just 6-7” tall.  What do we expect from this cross?  The main goals are improving flower color and keeping plant size under 6” tall. An excellent quality of this cross is that flowers will be large compared to the plant stature of this easy-to-grow hybrid.  The reciprocal is SVO 10173. A fantastic opportunity to evaluate the effect of capsule vs. pollen parent.
3” pots $18

Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea 4n'	Lc. Mini Blue Star 'SVO Blues' HCC/AOS

SVO 10472
Lc. NEW HYBRID (Lc. Floralia's Azul 'Sandra' AM/AOS x Lc. Love Knot 'SVO' HCC/AOS)
At SVO we are always looking for the ideal cross: a vigorous grower that blooms well with excellent flower shape and color. Our compact blue breeding toward this goal is coming along very nicely. Floralia's Azul (Lc. Mem. Jack Hayden x C. walkeriana) has proven to be an important breeder of blues. Its fine flower shape, color and free-flowering habit are strong points. Love Knot is a small plant and excellent grower that’s only 5” tall. It blooms twice a year with 2 to 3 very flat flowers that are nearly 4” across.  Based on the progeny we have seen from these two parents, we can predict that this mating will produce coerulea flowers with dark blue lips. Flowers will have wide petals that are flat, making for a very nice presentation.
3” pots $18

Lc. Floralia’s Azul 'Sandra' AM/AOS	Lc. Love Knot 'SVO' HCC/AOS

SVO 10663
Lc. Mini Purple coerulea (Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea 4n' x self)
This Mini Purple (C. walkeriana x L. pumila) is a tetraploid mutation found in a large group of clones flowered in Japan.  It was a real standout, with very heavy substance and large flowers with wide segments. Selfing a 4n will produce almost 100% 4n offspring, with the overall quality being exceptional. This is a rare opportunity.
3” pots $18

Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea 4n'	self

SVO 10669
Lc. Frosty Prince (Lc. Mini Blue Star 'SVO Blues' HCC/AOS x Lc. Indigo Valentine 'Blueness')
Mini Blue Star (Lc. Mini Purple x Lc. Cornelia) blooms with big 5” coerulea flowers and darker coerulea lips on plants just 6-7” tall.  Indigo Valentine (Lc. Indigo Love x C. Valentine) has large 5” flowers with superb, large, dark blue lips on plants standing 8” tall. What do we expect from this cross?  Improving the dark coeruela flower color and blue lips and increasing the possibility for 3-4 blooms while keeping the plant size down to flower in 4” pots. This has great potential!
3” pots $18

Lc. Mini Blue Star 'SVO Blues' HCC/AOS	Lc. Indigo Valentine 'Blueness'

SVO 10772
Lc. Mini Blue Star (Lc. Cornelia 'Floralia' x Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea 4n')
This is our version of Mini Blue Star with select cultivars of Cornelia (C. labiata x C. pumila) and Lc. Mini Purple (C. walkeriana x L. pumila). This is an outstanding grex with great flower shape and colors in coerulea with dark blue lips and a yellow throat. Plants will be mini-Catts standing 6” tall with flowers 3” across. We also made this with the parents in the reverse order (a reciprocal cross) – see SVO 10342.  It’s always interesting to see compare results from reciprocal crosses using the same parents.
3” pots $18

Lc. Cornelia 'Floralia'	Lc. Mini Purple 'Coerulea 4n'

SVO 10888
Lc. Cornelis' Love (Lc. Cornelia 'Floralia' x Lc. Love Knot 'SVO' HCC/AOS)
Compact coerulea breeding is developing quite nicely, and this cross brings together several important traits: large flowers exceeding 6” across, a plant only 7-8” tall, and flower colors in coerulea with dark blue lips and a yellow throat, which really sets off the lip color. The breeding combines Cornelia (C. labiata x L. pumila) and Love Knot (C. walkeriana x L. sincorana). The first time we offered this grex it proved to be a good grower and flowered easily.  Here is a first bloom PHOTO from the first cross.
3” pots $18

Lc. Cornelia 'Floralia'	Lc. Love Knot 'SVO' HCC/AOS

SVO 10891
Lc. NEW HYBRID (Lc. Cornelia  'Floralia' x Lc. Indigo Love 'Blue Saphire')
Cornelia (C. labiata x L. pumila) flower size exceeds 6”, and the plant is only 7-8” tall, bearing coerulea colored flowers with dark blue lips and a yellow throat.  Lc. Indigo Love (Indigo Dawn x Love Knot) is a modern blue hybrid that benefits from the influence of C. walkeriana and L. pumila. It also capitalizes on the large flower size of the standard labiate Cattleya species, C. warneri and C. warscewiczii, in the grandparents of this cross.  Large coerulea flowers on compact plants - very nice!
3” pots $18

Lc. Cornelia  'Floralia'	Lc. Indigo Love 'Blue Saphire'