UEL 8 is a cultivar of Dendrobium nobile developed in the Department of Agronomy, Universidade Estadual de Londrina resulting from the crossing of matrix plants D7 and D14 selected by the size of the flowers that have intense and uniform flowering. The plants were artificially pollinated and the seeds sown in vitro. The cultivar has flowers of purple color, and the lip on the lower portion presents the same shade of the other whorls, the middle part is white and the inner part presents a deep purple color, dark and velvety texture. The pseudobulb has on average 34 flowers with a life span of about 20 days.
Hybridization; breeding; orchid; selection
