Essence of Stanhopea: Stanhopea oculata

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Stanhopea oculata

Another one of my stunning stanhopea’s currently in flower – stanhopea oculata. It’s native to hot humid forests of Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and it flowers with these showy large vanilla scented waxy flowers.

This season each flowering spike developed five flowers but oculata can carry up to 9 flowers, making quite a spectacle of color, textures and scents.

More spikes are developing on my plant hence more flowers later on of this popular, attractive and handsome stanhopea.

3 comments:

Sergio A. TozzoFebruary 16, 2009 at 11:22 AM
Hello
Stanhope oculata is native to Brazil but does not occur in my region. here is only the Stanhope lietzei, soon I will post pictures of it on my blog.
Stanhope and his collection is fantastic. Congratulations!
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essenceoftimeFebruary 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM
Thank you very much for checking out my blog.
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jthollandApril 8, 2010 at 1:28 PM
thank you very much for the useful information here on this blog, i`m also cultivating Stan`s overhere in holland
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If you’ve tried growing everything from Aspidistras to Zinnias and you haven’t tried Stanhopea Orchids, you don’t know what you’re missing. They are easier to grow than African Violets and far more majestic than any other plant. The variety available boggles the mind …

Be warn, though, ever since their discovery by English explorers to Europe in the 18th Century they have caused a “ Stanhopea mania” that continues to this day.

My own first Stanhopea orchid was Stanhopea Tigrina though I didn’t know it. Friend gave it to me as a birthday present – a trip to the library for some orchid’s books was quickly followed by the purchase of some more of these exotic, majestic, beautiful orchids and as they say – the fever had struck.

My fascination with orchids led to great friendships, lots and lots of reading, trips to exotic places (sometimes only through books) and the joy and frustration of growing the world’s most fabulous plants.