Growing conditions
Cool Temperature class
11°C Day/night drop
914mm Annual rainfall
Moderate Rainfall pattern
Temperature
1°N Northern Hemisphere Day high Night low Range across populations
Rainfall
914mm/yearJan 20° 16–25 9° 5–16 84mm
Feb 21° 16–25 9° 5–16 94mm
Mar 22° 16–26 11° 5–17 106mm
Apr 22° 17–28 12° 6–17 119mm
May 24° 19–29 12° 7–19 78mm
Jun 27° 20–29 14° 8–20 56mm
Jul 27° 20–31 16° 8–19 48mm
Aug 27° 20–30 15° 8–19 38mm
Sep 26° 21–28 13° 7–19 52mm
Oct 22° 19–28 12° 5–19 78mm
Nov 22° 16–26 11° 5–17 84mm
Dec 21° 16–25 10° 6–16 81mm
Bloom Season
Based on 21 Catasetum awards. Showing genus-level data.
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Awards
HCC / AOC 1990 'Orchidglade'
0.00 points Exhibited by Lovell B. & R. QLD 12 February 1990
Measurements
Flower size 66 × 69 mm Petals 47 × 28 mm Dorsal sepal 50 × 16 mm Lateral sepals 48 × 16 mm Lip 50 × 47 mm
Lower sepals yellow group 150C. Labellum yellow orange 15C fading to yellow 6C. AJ
View on AOC website ↗Hybrids from Catasetum expansum
As seed parent
Catamodes Patently Pretty × Mormodes guentheriana
Catasandra Fanfare × Galeandra baueri
Catasetum × sodiroi × Catasetum macroglossum
Catasetum Black Knight × Catasetum tenebrosum
Catasetum Charles Fouquette × Catasetum osculatum
Catasetum Colosso × Catasetum lucis
Catasetum Fanfair × Catasetum saccatum
Catasetum Flying Saucer × Catasetum Sumani
Catasetum Frank Maine × Catasetum Karen Armstrong
Catasetum Marlene Young × Catasetum denticulatum
Catasetum Memoria Alexis Pardo × Catasetum tabulare
Catasetum Sandy Gibson × Catasetum barbatum
Catasetum Sodiroi × Catasetum macroglossum
Catasetum Susan Fuchs × Catasetum Orchidglade
Catasetum Thinger Dinger × Catasetum fuchsii
Catasetum True Love × Catasetum Thinger Dinger
Clowesetum Manny Tavarez × Clowesia warczewitzii
As pollen parent
Catamodes JEM's Golden Mode Mormodes maculata ×
Catamodes Jumbo Lampads Mormodes Jumbo Vulcan ×
Catamodes Jumbo Rubytex Mormodes Jumbo Bacia ×
Catanoches Ecuagenera Cycnoches farnsworthianum ×
Catanoches Green Dragon Cycnoches haagii ×
Catanoches Jumbo Chilin Cycnoches Jumbo Dragon ×
Catanoches Pfahl's Folly Cycnoches loddigesii ×
Catasetum Altamir Soares Catasetum spitzii ×
Catasetum Alvaro Pereira Catasetum vinaceum ×
Catasetum Ana Marta Soares Catasetum schmidtianum ×
Catasetum Antonio Mangerona Catasetum Melana Davison ×
Catasetum Beijinho Doce Catasetum Alice Maud ×
Catasetum Bravo Catasetum Flying Saucer ×
Catasetum Cape of Island Catasetum triodon ×
Catasetum Charles Darwin Catasetum � apolloi ×
Catasetum Cleusa Schinaider Catasetum � faustoi ×
Catasetum Duda Araujo Catasetum � mesquitae ×
Catasetum Expanded Eagle Catasetum Jumbo Eagle ×
Catasetum Fabiola Soares Catasetum Rafael Wenzel ×
Catasetum Fernando Soares Catasetum lanciferum ×