Bulbophyllum lobbii

Bulbophyllum lobbii.

"Flower Size 3-4" Across [7.5 to 10 cm]

This unifoliate, small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic species is from Borneo, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines at altitudes of 200 to 2000 meters in lowland and montane forests on trunks and main branches of trees and has well spaced pseudobulbs with a persistent sheath that split into yellow fibers and carries a single, apical, leathery leaf and blooms on an erect, to 6" [15 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence that arises from a node on the rhizome and blooms in the summer on a large, fragrant, single flower on each new pseudobulb held at mid leaf. They are hot to warm growing and do best mounted or in a pot with a well draining medium and regular water and fertilizer but have caution, as the new pseudobulbs develop, is when fungus will occur from overwatering."

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Place: José Celestino Mutis Botanical Garden of Bogotá, Colombia
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ2