Can you identify this orchid?

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  June 2020

  This may help https://www.countryliving.com/gardening/g32261131/orchid-types/

  
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• Novice2020 Posts: 42

  June 2020 edited June 2020

  Dovefromabove said:

  This may help https://www.countryliving.com/gardening/g32261131/orchid-types/

  Thank you, the link you sent was helpful. I did some research and what my mother has is a Cattleya Orchid and specifically, Cattleya ‘King of Taiwan’

  
  

  ‘As one of the most popular orchids, cattleya orchids, also known as "corsage orchids," come in a variety of different colors due to hybridization. 

  Many have freckles or streaks of contrasting colors, and they thrive best in warm climates with medium bright light.'
  
  

  There are around 70 species, mostly from south and central America, but many more hybrids are grown as houseplants.

  
  https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-grow-cattleya-orchids/

  
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  June 2020

  Glad that was helpful 

  
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• jeanne5546 Posts: 3

  July 2020

  Hi I have had a Cattleya Orchid for 35 years the same colour as your Mum's, so keep doing what she is and it will last a long time 

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