Welcome to another
Sobralia Day. Every few weeks you can walk into the Orchid Center and find
lots of sobralias covered with flowers. Some horticulturists claim that a cold snap will trigger a mass flowering. Nah. I'm sure sobralias arrange these events in advance, telepathically. The flowers of most
Sobralia species last just one day.
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| Sobralia callosa |
On my
list of Top Ten
Sobralias,
Sobralia callosa ranks high in the top two. It is
tiny, a highly prized quality in a group of orchids that mostly aspire to be Hydrangeas -- oversized and floppy, spilling over into their neighbor's space. A mature
Sobralia callosa spans 1 ft. from tip to tip. I wish we had a hundred of them.
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| unidentified white Sobralia |
Our unidentified (very tricky, those white Sobralias)
Sobralia is more typical --a 6' adolescent.
Sobralias are native to Central and South America, where you can sometimes see them in flower, growing on steep road cuts in full sun.
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The name of the unidentified white sobralia is Sobralia Gentryi..... From Equador!
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