If you want a large purple Cattleya flower you cannot go wrong with the hybrid Rlc. Memoria Crispin Rosales. There are a number of clones of this hybrid available to the public. I used to have the clone 'Hawaii'. My plant usually produced two flowers but sometimes it would produce a single humongous flower on the inflorescence. In my experience very susceptible to white fly and mealy bugs. I had to be watchful because sometimes white fly would proliferate unnoticed under the dried sheaths of the youngest bulbs.
