Thursday, February 19, 2015

Spilotantha chaetostoma

This small Masdevallia is from Ecuador.  It has been reclassified and placed in a new genus, but is still best known by its old name.  The flowers are tiny, only 1.5 cm but there are four to five flowers per spike and when the plant is in bloom it looks like it has a cloud of little white insects hovering over it.  The spikes are 15 cm and the plant 6 cm.






2 comments:

  1. Ron, what most original flowers. Nice combination of white and green. Congratulations on that beauty. Hugs

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