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| | Cattleya Orchids, Cattleya Orchid, orchid, orchids |
 | | In their natural habitat, members of the Cattleya Alliance grow on and along supporting surfaces, such as limbs and trunks of trees, in the tropical and subtropical Americas. |
 | | Included in the Cattleya Alliance are species and hybrids of the following popular genera: Brassavola, Broughtonia, Diacrium, Encyclia, Epidendrum, Laelia, Rhyncholaelia, Schomburgkia, Sophronitis, and Tetramicra, as well as numerous man made hybrid genera. |
 | | Members of this ALLIANCE can be grown in plastic pots, clay pots, wooden baskets or attached to some kind of slab. |
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