Cycnoches egertonianum 'Red'

"Cycnoches egertonianum Bateman is native to Mexico and Central America. It is found in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Brazil and Panama, where it grows epiphytic on tree trunks in wet forests at an altitude of 600 to 1800 m above sea level"

Cycnoches egertonianum Bateman 'Red'

Latinh name: Cycnoches egertonianum Bateman, Orchid. Mexico Guatemala t. 40.

Cycnoches egertonianum 'Red'; Photo Orquintal - Orquídeas exóticas

its native range is S. Mexico to Colombia.

Latinh Name: 

Cycnoches egertonianum Bateman

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Cycnoches amparoanum Schltr.

Cycnoches egertonianum var. egertonianum

Cycnoches glanduliferum A. Rich. & Galeotti ex Hemsl.

Cycnoches pauciflorum Schltr.

Cycnoches ventricosum var. egertonianum (Bateman) Hook.

English Name:

Egerton's Cycnoches (English Orchid Enthusiast 1800's).

Description: 

With an arcuate to pendant, 45 to 75 cm long, many flowered male or few flowered female, racemose inflorescence that arise from the leaf nodes near the apex of the newest, mature, fusiform to conical pseudobulb with 2 to several, deciduous, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, thin leaves. Old leafless pseudobulbs and backbulbs can produce keikis.

Distribution:

Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Panamá.

Ecological:

At elevations of 600 to 1800 m on tree trunks in wet forests and is a medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the the fall and winter.

Flower size:

6.5 cm.

Cultivation:

Grow in warm conditions with partially bright light. Water regularly during growing season and when plants drop leaves during dormancy reduce watering. During dormancy only water about twice a month to keep pseudobulbs from shriveling. Resume watering normally when new growths occur in spring. Plants can die easily from over watering. Plants are usually grown in bark with perlite, cork, full sphagnum moss, and tree fern. Female flowers will often be produced when high light and low moisture is present. While male flowers are produced in shadier situation of higher moisture.

Type: 

K000079615 Unknown type material

K000079614 Unknown type material