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Cattleya

Cattleya American Velvet

Hybrid
Cattleya Nigritian × Cattleya Albert Hollingsworth
Formerly Laeliocattleya American Velvet (reclassified 2008)
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Ancestry

Cattleya American VelvetCattleya NigritianCattleya Fred SanderCattleya Fabia 1894Cattleya Remy CholletCattleya Monarch 1917Cattleya trianaeCattleya NigrellaCattleya Fabia 1894Cattleya Ypres 1918Cattleya Albert Holling...Cattleya Bonanza BraceyCattleya Pirate KingCattleya Lee LangfordCattleya CalizonaCattleya HaroldianaCattleya Hardyana 1896Cattleya tenebrosaCattleya TriumphansCattleya dowiana [aurea]Cattleya rexCattleya S. J. BraceyCattleya Mrs. MedoCattleya Luminosa 1901Cattleya Venus 1908Cattleya ThebesCattleya AdulaCattleya bicolorCattleya Hardyana 1896Cattleya dowianaCattleya QuadroonCattleya Susan 1943Cattleya Nigritian

Species Hybrid Seed parent Pollen parent

Cattleya American Velvet
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Species composition

Cattleya trianae 6.3% Cattleya tenebrosa 1.6% Cattleya rex 1.6% Cattleya dowiana 1.6% Cattleya bicolor 0.8%
Unknown ancestry 88.3%

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Based on 189 Cattleya awards. Showing genus-level data.

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Hybrids from Cattleya American Velvet

As seed parent

Restrepia Doug Mew × Rhyncholaeliocattleya Tampico
Rhyncholaeliocattleya Banjong Ben × Rhyncholaeliocattleya Magnificent Obsession
Rhyncholaeliocattleya Doug Mew × Rhyncholaeliocattleya Tampico

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