Origin |
Curacao, El Savador,
Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, San Andres Island |
Plant description |
The leaves are stiff,
erect, and grooved or channeled along their upper surface. Short
stalks produce 2-5 flowers. |
Growing |
Plants growing in warm,
humid coastal regions and have wide, non-terete, fat fleshy leaves.
The wide leaves is a hallmark for finding this species when they
are not in flower, though the same characteristic is found to
some degree in B. grandiflora. |
Blooming Season |
Plants in nature bloom
in May and June. The only other reported to bloom in September
was the clone "Jeane", awarded a CBR by the AOS. |
Flower size and shape |
The sepals and petals
are up to7 cm long, and the lip measures 4.2 by 8 cm. |
Colors and fragrance |
From the picture in Dr.
Withner's book, the flowers show thin narrow greenish white sepals
and petals, somewhat droopping, lip is white with red markings
on both side of the center lip line, also has greenish veins
draw ununiformed patterns fron the center of the lip to the side.
The lower on both side of the lip curved to the back. |
Comments |
Not common seen for sale.
I see the flowers resemble many characteristics of the B. grandiflora. |