Le nom Restrepia provient de Jose Restrepo qui a explore la Cordillere des Andes au debut du 19ieme sciecle. Petite famille de 30 a 50 especes de petites tailles qui poussent a 1800-2400 metres d'altitude d'ou les conditions de culture froides et humides (ne jamais laisser secher le pot!).
La fleur se developpe a la base de la feuille, parfois au dos, une seule fleur a la fois.
Cette restrepia provient de Colombie, elle est aussi nommee the Blood Red Restrepia (la Restrepia rouge sang).
Achat Juillet 2010 - Orchidmania
Partial shade, cold to coll temperature, flower in winter and spring
A miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte from Antioquia and Cundinamarca Colombia in cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 2800 meters with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by several scarious sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, leathery , purple suffused leaf and blooms in the winter and spring on a terminal, successively single flowered inflorescence held in a fascile and arises on the back side of the leaf.
Partial shade, cold to coll temperature, flower in winter and spring
A miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte from Antioquia and Cundinamarca Colombia in cloud forests at elevations of 1500 to 2800 meters with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by several scarious sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, leathery , purple suffused leaf and blooms in the winter and spring on a terminal, successively single flowered inflorescence held in a fascile and arises on the back side of the leaf.
