Dracula saulii Luer & Sijm

"Dracula saulii Luer & Sijm This species of small size is endemic to Peru. It grows epiphytically in medium to cold climates. This Dracula saulii Luer & Sijm received the prize for the best week of the week in our partner contest."

Dracula saulii Luer & Sijm, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 105: 249 (-250; fig. 7) (2006).

Dracula saulii Luer & Sijm, Photo by Sociedad Colombiana de Orquideología 

its native range is Peru.

Latinh Name: 

Dracula saulii Luer & Sijm. 

Synonym:

No

English Name:

Saul's Dracula [Peruvian Orchid Enthusaist Current.

Description: 

With erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, thinly coriaceous, carinate, narrowly linear, obtuse, narrowing below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a horizontal, 10 to 11 cm long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, and has a tubular floral bracts.

Distribution:

Peru.

Ecological:

As a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte. 

Flowering times:

Blooms in the fall.

Flower size:

3.3 cm.

Cultivation:

Climate: Intermediate Cool

Air Circulation: Medium

Light: Low

Humidity: High

Fertilizer: Monthly

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in cold to cool conditions. Pot the plant in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.

Type:

Collector Team:

Ton Sijm 250925

Type Herbaria:

holotype MO

Distribution Of Types:

Peru (Western South America, Southern America)

Type Remarks:

Collected by Saul Ruiz, obtained from Manuel Arias, cultivated at Orchideeënkwerkerij, Venhuizen, the Netherlands, flowered in cultivation