not yet in bloom
Cattleya percivaliana |
taxonomy | described by | (Reichenbach f.) O' Brien, James |
published in | The Gardner's Chronicle & Agricultural Gazette 20 : 404 1883 | |
family | Orchidaceae | |
subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
tribe | Epidendreae | |
subtribe | Laeliinae | |
genus | Cattleya Lindley 1821, monofoliate | |
metabolism | CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. | |
(K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
native of | origins | forests, next watercourses, endemic in Venezuela (Carabobo, Merìda, Miranda, Yaracuy), |
Colombia (Cauca) | ||
altitude | 1300 - 2000 m (4290 - 6600 ft) | |
habitat | climate informations from Popayan (Cauca, Colombia) | |
Köppen climate classification : Cfb, humid subtropical climate in all seasons, with hot summers | ||
the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 1650 m / 5445 ft) : | ||
photoperiod | in Popayan this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 09 m' to 11 h 51 m' | |
life form | litophyte | |
brigthness | full sun | |
inflorescence | length | |
nr fiori | ||
size | ||
duration | ||
time | to bloom from birth, ≈ days | |
CITES | appendix | II |