This wonderful species is our largest flowering Maxillaria species. Maxillaria triloris is native to South America and found from Venezuela to Ecuador as an epiphyte in wet forest from 800-1800m. We find that it enjoys the conditions of cool damp and shade in Cool Americas and we grow it in an open basket but with […]

Another plant looking great in the greenhouse this week is Chysis aurea with four spikes of large orange and gold flowers. This glorious species is native to warm forests in Central and South America. It grows long thick pendulous bulbs each summer and then loses its leaves during the winter before sending out these lovely […]

This magnificent Cattleya species is native to Colombia where it grows at around 1000m as a lithophyte on exposed rocks. We find it to be a straight forward species to grow in our Warm America section where we have several clones. The one shown above is particularly strong growing and has reached specimen size with […]

This warm growing species from Central America is locally called the coconut orchid as it produces a powerful fragrance which is unmistakably coconut. We have seen the species in the wild in Guatemala growing in dryish lowland forest. We found it mostly on the trunks of trees or on lower branches where it has some shade […]

  This is a small growing species from the Cattleya family rather sweetly named the three nosed Meiracyllium. The species is native to Mexico and Central America where it grows on trees and rock at around 1000m. Its habit is to cling tight to its mount and so we would definitely grow it mounted rather […]