Maxillaria variabilis plant grown by Russell Bulley.

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Grower is Russell Bulley

Located in Peterborough , Northamptonshire , United Kingdom


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Maxillaria variabilis plant grown by Russell Bulley.
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Description: Found from Mexico Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador as a small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial, lithophytic or epiphytic, solitary leafed species is found on or below trees in open or dense humid forests at elevations of 500 to 2500 meters. DESCRIPTION: A small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial, lithophytic or epiphytic, solitary leafed species is found on or below trees in open or dense humid forests at elevations of 500 to 2500 meters with simple or branched rhizomes carrying subclustered, ovoid to ellipsoid pseudobulb subtended by several sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear or linear-oblong, subcoriaceous, grass-green acute to obtuse leaf that blooms throughout the year with several scarious sheaths that carry the slender, to 2 [to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by several, thin, scarious, translucent, lanceolate, acuminate bracts with variable colored, long-lasting flowers. FLOWER SIZE: To about 3/4 inch [1 to 1.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia Found from Mexico Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador as a small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial, lithophytic or epiphytic, solitary leafed species is found on or below trees in open or dense humid forests at elevations of 500 to 2500 meters with simple or branched rhizomes carrying subclustered, ovoid to ellipsoid pseudobulb subtended by several sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear or linear-oblong, subcoriaceous, grass-green acute to obtuse leaf that blooms throughout the year with several scarious sheaths that carry the slender, to 2" [to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by several, thin, scarious, transluscent, lanceolate, acuminate bracts with variable colored, long-lasting flowers.
Culture: mixture of bark chips and sphagnum moss, as I have discovered that it doesn’t react well to drying out, especially when grown warm. Water regularly and keep mix moist but not wet. Plant require semi-dry rest through the winter months

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