Cyclopogon epitificus
$46
An epiphytic orchid that looks more like a South American ground orchid (can still be grown in a pot!). This is a harder to find species occurring in Colombia and Ecuador. From orchidspecies.com,
” Found from Colombia and Ecuador in lower cloud forests at elevations of 100 to 800 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with fasiculate, thick, fleshy, long-pubescent roots and a basal rosette of ovate to elliptic, acute, coppery-green leaf with white spots that taper basally into a slender petiole that blooms in the spring through fall [late winter through spring in the Northern Hemisphere] in situ on an erect, terminal, to 8″ [20 cm] long, glabrous, bracteolate, many flowered, racemose inflorescence.
Often confused with C cranichoides but differs in it’s exclusive epiphytic habit, its coppery green leaves with white spots and having a concave side lobes at the midpoint giving it a pandurate-sinuate aspect when spread instead of a rectangular mid-side lobe. Also C epiphyticum and C cranchioides occur in the same location but are separated by elevation, C epiphyticum occurs below 1000 meters and B cranichioides occurs above 1000 meters to 1800 meters.”
Available plants are well rooted in 4″ pots. Not grown from TC. The last image is representative of the size plants available.
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