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Cattleya

Cattleya Melissa

Hybrid
Cattleya Wine Festival × Cattleya Dayana 1966
Formerly Laeliocattleya Melissa (reclassified 2008)
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Ancestry

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Species Hybrid Seed parent Pollen parent

Cattleya Melissa
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Species composition

Cattleya tigrina 25.0% Cattleya dowiana 7.8% Cattleya warscewiczii 2.3% Cattleya mendelii 1.6% Cattleya purpurata 0.8%
Unknown ancestry 62.5%

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

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