Epidendrum lacustre

"Epidendrom lacustre Lindl. - A red/ burgundy form from Peru. This species has a burgundy foliage and can get more intense if expose more to the sun. The plant can get 2 to 3 feet tall with the cluster of flowers at the top ranging from 10 to 30 flowers pending on how much sunlight it gets.

A must have if you’re a species lover!"

 Epidendrum lacustre Lindl., Fol. Orchid. 3(Epidendrum): 50 (1853).

Epidendrum lacustre Lindl. Photo by Ha Bui

its native range is Central America to Venezuela and Peru.

Latinh Name: 

Epidendrum lacustre Lindl.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Epidendrum leucochilum Lindl.

Epidendrum obesum Ames

English Name:

The Lakeside Epidendrum

Description: 

With a compressed, elongate stem completely enveloped by basally clasping, alternate, leaf bearing sheaths carrying, elliptical leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, 10 cm long, several 5 to 15 flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from a green spathe with the night scented flowers held in an apical cluster.

Distribution:

Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela.

Ecological:

In montane rain forest or cloud forest at elevations of 700 to 2700 m as a small to large sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring.

Flower size:

7.5 cm.

Cultivation:

Grow plants in cool to warm temperatures in partial shade. Plants should be grown in a mixture of fine bark with perlite. Plants can also be potted in New Zealand sphagnum moss or tree fern fibers. Keep the potting mix moist but not wet or damp. Water when the mix begins to dry. To induce blooming keep plants cool.

In Auckland and other sub-tropical regions of New Zealand, the cool growing plants will flower all year round. While they are normally grown in pots, it is also possible to grow them in a bark garden.

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