Essence of Stanhopea: stanhopea pseudoradiosa

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Flowering season continues

Here more pictures of my flowering stanhopeas. Some of my mid-season blooming plants started to put up a show and it's always nice to have in a collection plants that extand flowering season.
Some varieties and crossess flower early. some mid-season and some quite late giving much pleasure and enjoyment to any stanhopea collector.


Stanhopea tigrina var albescence


Stanhopea embreei x wardii


Stanhopea pseudoradiosa

Friday, February 13, 2009

Stanhopea pseudoradiosa

This stanhopea is one of the stunning orchids in the stanhopea range and I’ve been waiting for a while now to see its gorgeous flowers. Its just flowered revealing its majestic flamboyant flowers.

It’s native to Mexico and not often seen in cultivation. The flowers have this luminous quality to them and of rather large size with strong marshmallow scent. The colors are bright orange/green with tiny specs all over the flower.

My plant is of medium size and this is its first flowering season, so I’ve been looking forward seeing it being in flower.

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.