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A large orchid. I got it as Sudamerlycaste fimbriata but Plants of the World online says it should be Ida fimbriata which nseems reasonable.
I bought it because I adore the green flowers of Ida locusta and thought that it had some chance of cold tolerance. Plants of the World online says: "The native range of this species is W. South America. It is a pseudobulbous geophyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome." The Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia says: "A medium sized, cold to warm growing epiphytic or lithophytic species found in Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador at elevations of 1000 to 2800 meters under scrub in rocky soil with shady conditions and, in river canyons and on decaying tree stumps, with ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2 deciduous leaves that blooms in the later winter and early spring on a laxly erect, several at once, to 4" [10 cm] long inflorescence with nocturnally fragrant, waxy, long-lived flowers." La Foresta Orchids say: "Sudamerlycaste are endemic to Peru. It is a mountain species, it is at an altitude of 2000 - 3000m and grows on the limestone rocks or on the trunks of trees along the rivers." Unfortunatley I had an unusually severe radiation frost in the middle of December that completely destroyed it. I don't think that it would have been tough enough to survive in the greenhouse under normal circumstances but a sudden, severe frost so early in the season was clearly too much. |
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| 15th July 2022 | ||
