Guarianthe aurantiaca fma Yellow

"Guarianthe aurantiaca is native to Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. In Nicaragua, the plants grow on trees on dry hilly pastures and in forests near roads"

Guarianthe aurantiaca (Bateman) Dressler & W.E.Higgins, Lankesteriana 7: 38 (2003) (2003).

Guarianthe aurantiaca (Bateman) Dressler & W.E.Higgins, Photos by Rafael Santos

Guarianthe aurantiaca (Bateman) Dressler & W.E.Higgins, Photos by Alpha Biotechnology

Latinh Name: 

Guarianthe aurantiaca (Bateman) Dressler & W.E.Higgins,

Synonym:

Amalia aurantiaca (Bateman ex Lindl.) Heynh.

Broughtonia aurea Lindl.

Cattleya aurantiaca (Bateman ex Lindl.) P.N.Don

Epidendrum aurantiacum Bateman ex Lindl.

Epidendrum aureum (Lindl.) Lindl.

Laelia aurantiaca (Bateman ex Lindl.) Beer

English Name:

Orange Cattleya.

Description: 

with elongate, cylindric-fusiform, lightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, coriaceous, fleshy, elliptic to oblong-lanceolate leaves with a rounded, retuse apex that flowers from late winter through spring on a terminal, 16 cm long, few to many 2 to 11 flowered, umbelliform inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb..

Distribution:

Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.

Ecological:

This stout, small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic and occasional lithophytic species, at elevations of 300 to 1600 meters in tropical and lower mountain rain forests on exposed rocks, or on trees in areas of extreme heat and cold .

Flowering times:

Blooms in the late winter through spring.

Flower size:

2.5 cm.

Cultivation:

Plants should be grown in medium fir bark with partial to full sun. The plant should be grown in a intermediate to warm environment. Water approximately once a week. Plant can also be mounted.

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