Masdevallia herradurae - Orchid Board

whygreenberg · #1 (**permalink**) 11-02-2009, 08:34 PM

Blooming for me now. Fantastic fragrance in the morning. Soft floral scent but with spicy cinnamon notes!

Swamper · #2 (**permalink**) 11-02-2009, 08:45 PM

Yvan, I'm seeing more and more of these lately. I need to get closer and smell one. Yours is really cool looking too. Good job.

Roly0217 · #3 (**permalink**) 11-02-2009, 08:49 PM

Yvan that is a gorgeous set of flowers. I really like the yellow tails. Congrats on the blooms.

whygreenberg · #4 (**permalink**) 11-03-2009, 12:47 AM

Thanks guys! Funniest thing, Roly, is that I really don't remember it having the yellow tails last year.

However, I think the fragrance is more intense this year.

RosieC · #5 (**permalink**) 11-03-2009, 04:15 PM

It's gorgeous. What wonderful flowers.

dr_dmd · #6 (**permalink**) 11-05-2009, 06:28 AM

Is this one of the intermediate growers, by chance? Or is it a cool temp plant. or...? You are obviously doing well growing it - good job!

dr_dmd · #7 (**permalink**) 11-05-2009, 06:32 AM

I just looked it up on Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia:

Found in Colombia and Ecuador in the central and western cordillera where it grows on mossy trees at elevations of 500 to 2100 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly obovate, acute leaf that is gradually narrowed below into an indistinct petiole and blooms on a slender, erect, 1" to 2" long inflorescence from low on the ramicaul, with a bract below the middle, and a tubular floral bract carrying a solitary flower per inflorescence held at or below leaf height. This is a floriferous species and old leaves can have new flowers year after year. A fast growing, cool to warm growing epiphyte that needs year round moisture, moderate light, and a pot with an open medium of treefern, sphagnum, perlite and pine or fir bark.

Nice, eh!