Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Masdevallia lamprotyria

Masdevallia lamprotyria is a very fragrant species from Ecuador and Peru.  It's scent will perfume a whole room, but it's colorful and oddly shaped flowers are attractive too.  It has narrow, upright leaves that are 10 cm and the flowers, produced int he spring, are 3 cm.  The name lamprotyria refers to the color of the flowers and the scent is of lilacs.






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  1. Czar3233February 20, 2015 at 10:09 PM

    Just gorgeous. I am so afraid of trying this one again because of my failure with it last time. How do you keep this one?

    Cesar

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    1. RonFebruary 20, 2015 at 10:15 PM

      Plastic mesh pot, sphagnum moss, cool temps, fairly low light and good air movement. It does tend to drop leaves very quickly if it isn't happy.

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