Do you have a plant for sale or trade
which you cannot ship or do not want to bother shippping?
No problem.
Click here to make a local-only offer.
It's a free service to our members.
Lycaste peruviana is an orchid species identified by Rolfe in 1910. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Sudamerlycaste peruviana.
ORIGIN: Found in eastern Ecuador and Peru in very wet montane forests at elevations around 800 to 1100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep embankments with a longer rhizome carrying stout, ovate, slightly flattened, furrowed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several, distichous, imbricating sheaths with the uppermost 1 or 2 being foliaceous carrying 2 apical, plicate, thin, elliptical, acute, conduplicate below into the petiolate base leaf that is contracted into a channeled basal petiole that blooms in the spring on a basal, single flowered, 4 [10 cm] long, inflorescence with several tubular sheaths and a floral bract. This species is quite remarkable in the fact that it has a movable lip just like Bulbophyllum.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 3/4 inches [6.85 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Author is Ken Slump, posted almost 4 years ago
Suggestions for Choosing Plants Requiring Minimal Care
THIS SEEMS LIKE AN IDEAL TOPIC for an article. Many of us want to enjoy orchid flowers with a minimum of fuss and I have found that most ...
Read More
Beginners Start Here
Author is Ken Slump, posted almost 4 years ago
A 12-Step Plan for Becoming a Successful Orchid Grower
IF YOU ARE NEW TO THE ORCHID hobby and perhaps feel you are not enjoying the success with your plants that you had hoped for, read throug...
Read More
Water: The Most Important Nutrient
Author is Roy Tokunaga, posted over 4 years ago
We take water for granted. It falls out of the sky. It flows from the faucet. Oahu city water is considered good for growing Orchids. We use it without thought or concern.
If you study orch...
Read More