Masdevallia Nidifica
Masdevallia Nidifica
Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphytic species that is from windy lower montane cloud forests on slender branches at elevations of 450 to 2500 meters with short ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close, tubular bracts and carrying a single, apical, elliptic-lanceolate leaf and has a solitary flowered, arcuate, 5/8" to 2" [1.5 to 5 cm] long, inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul occuring in the winter and summer with the flower held at or above leaf level.
Contributed by @chiffchap
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Partial shade
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Occasional watering
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Not Frost hardy
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Moist and free draining
Common name
Masdevallia Nidifica
Latin name
Masdevallia Nidifica
type
Tender perennial
family
Orchidaceae
ph
7.0 - 8.0 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Partial shade
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Frost
Not Frost hardy
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Soil
Moist and free draining
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Water
Occasional watering
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
full grown dimensions
0.20 M
0.20 M
Masdevallia Nidifica
Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphytic species that is from windy lower montane cloud forests on slender branches at elevations of 450 to 2500 meters with short ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 close, tubular bracts and carrying a single, apical, elliptic-lanceolate leaf and has a solitary flowered, arcuate, 5/8" to 2" [1.5 to 5 cm] long, inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul occuring in the winter and summer with the flower held at or above leaf level.
chiffchap