Last year I purchased a pleurothallis type plant from Ecuagenera called Porroglossum mucosum after reading about it in Orchid Digest. Since there were many varieties I wasn't sure which one I had but the vendor Ivan said it was golden yellow. So I got it. I knew several things about this species. I knew it had a hairy inflorescence and masdevilla type flowers. What I didn't know was that it was sequentially blooming and that this variety had red tips on a golden yellow flower!!! It also had deep purple underside of the 4 cm leaves ... When it flowered I was in bliss! The flowers are large, a spread of 4 cm and blooms spring through summer. I highly recommend this plant for beautiful flowers and ease of culture.
I grow it in my intermediate terranium with coolish nights (12C) and days no more than 25C. Humidity almost 80-90% and sprayed with RO water daily. It's watered once a week and fed a weak mixture of fish emulsion and sea kelp, as all plants in the terranium.
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Porroglossum mucosum 'Red Wing Tips'
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