Category: Cattleya

This medium-sized orchid is found in Bahia and Espirito Santo, Brazil, growing in hot to cool conditions. It has clavate pseudobulbs with a single, erect, leathery leaf. Blooming in spring, it produces a 30 cm long racemose inflorescence emerging from a large basal sheath, bearing 3 to 4 fragrant, spicy-scented, short-lived flowers with variable colors.

This mini-miniature epiphytic orchid is found in Minas Gerais, Brazil, on rocky ledges at elevations of 1100 to 1800 meters. It grows in cool conditions with narrowly conical pseudobulbs and a single, erect, leathery, scoop-like leaf. Blooming in summer and fall, it produces a short, terminal inflorescence up to 1.5 cm long, bearing 3 to… Continue reading Laelia fourneri

This miniature to small epiphytic orchid is found in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, growing in cool to warm conditions. It has ovoid, laterally compressed pseudobulbs with a single, apical, oblong, obtuse leaf featuring a prominent midvein. Blooming in summer, it produces an erect raceme with two flowers.