This is my new purchase from Micheal Sinn. I went to Orchids Etcetera to pick up a birthday present for a friend. Jeff had some beautiful stuff, but nothing he and I thought would work for a new orchid grower. Micheal had some well grown C. purpurata that fit the bill. Then I looked around the bloom shown above caught my eye. Now it’s part of my collection.

The parents of this plant are Slc. Mae Hawkins x C. Chocolate. You may recognize the cross, C. Chocolate x Slc Mae Hawkins is the well known Slc. Tutankamen.

I find it interesting that the seed and pod parents plants being reversed produced so strikingly different flowers.