Gros zoom sur une Masdevalia. Cette fleur fait un peu de moins de 1 cm. Elle provient d'Equateur ou elle pousse en altitudes (1400 a 2800 metres). Elle est de taille miniature.La famille des Masdevalia compte 565 especes, provenant d'Amerique Centrale et du nord de l'Amerique du Sud ou elles vivent entre 700 et 3500 metres d'altitude. Celles qui poussent en hautes altitudes ont besoin de temperature basse, beaucoup d'humidite et de l'ombre.
La fleur est triangulaire, de couleur vive, les petales sont minuscules (ressemblent a des yeux), les sepales sont tres developpes, soudes et prolonges en appendices plus ou moins long.
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Achat Juillet 2010 - Orchimania
Partial shade, cool to intermediary temperature, flower in summer to fall
Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at altitudes of 1400 to 2800 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and sometimes terrestrial orchid with slender, erect, green with purple dots ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apcial, erect, coriaceous, petiolate, elliptical, subacute leaf that is gradually narrowed below into the channeled petiole which blooms on a slender, erect, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and an inflated floral bract.
Partial shade, cool to intermediary temperature, flower in summer to fall
Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at altitudes of 1400 to 2800 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and sometimes terrestrial orchid with slender, erect, green with purple dots ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apcial, erect, coriaceous, petiolate, elliptical, subacute leaf that is gradually narrowed below into the channeled petiole which blooms on a slender, erect, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a bract below the middle and an inflated floral bract.
