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Orchid Species: Dracula bella
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dracula bella is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Luer in 1978.
ORIGIN: Found in dense cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 1700 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Fragrant, small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphytic species with coarse roots and a short leafy stem enveloped by loose basal sheaths and carrying a single, erect, thin coriaceous, elliptic-oblanceolate, acute to obtuse, petiolate base leaf blooms in the winter through spring on a pendulous, short to 7 [17.5 cm] raceme that arises from the base of the pseudobulb and carries a single, nodding flower. This species benefits from basket culture as the flowers are pendant and will poke out the bottom of the basket.
FLOWER SIZE: To almost 9 inches [to almost 22.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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