Il existe quelques 700 especes de Maxillaria provenant d'amerique tropicale et sub-tropicale ou on les trouve a 3500 metres d'altitude. Une fleur par tige.
Cette Maxilaria est aussi appelee "the coconut orchid" (orchidee noix de coco) par sa tres forte odeur que je definirai plutot comme un melange de vanille et poivree. J'adore cette odeur qui est plus forte a certain moment de la journee du coup j'en ai 2!! mais une refuse de fleurir...allez savoir pourquoi!
Partial shade, cool to hot temperature, flower in spring and summer
The Coconut Orchid, named for it's scent, occurs in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Niacaragua and Costa Rica as a medium sized, cool to hot growing, solitary leafed epiphyte or occasional terrestrial with an ascending growth habit found on trees in open or dense forests at low elevations up to 1500 meters, with a rhizome that is completely enveloped by scarious, imbricating, nonfoliaceous bracts with oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovate, compressed pseudobulb with a single apical, linear, attenuate leaf that blooms on a 5cm long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with scarious, basal bracts with the flower held at mid leaf height and occurs in spring and summer and then needs a semi-dry rest through the winter months, best mounted on tree fern.
Partial shade, cool to hot temperature, flower in spring and summer
The Coconut Orchid, named for it's scent, occurs in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Niacaragua and Costa Rica as a medium sized, cool to hot growing, solitary leafed epiphyte or occasional terrestrial with an ascending growth habit found on trees in open or dense forests at low elevations up to 1500 meters, with a rhizome that is completely enveloped by scarious, imbricating, nonfoliaceous bracts with oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovate, compressed pseudobulb with a single apical, linear, attenuate leaf that blooms on a 5cm long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with scarious, basal bracts with the flower held at mid leaf height and occurs in spring and summer and then needs a semi-dry rest through the winter months, best mounted on tree fern.
