By: Nat. Eduardo Villegas
Mexican orchids have a special attraction for the tourist sector that invites you to visit the Botanical Garden of Vallarta, where you will find them exhibiting a great variety of shapes and striking colors that make it impossible not to see, admire and contemplate them.
This month we want to share with you a beautiful orchid from our collection, the Encyclia trachycarpa. This species grows on trees in dry deciduous tropical forests and arid regions of the Mexican states of Colima and Jalisco. Sometimes even on cacti. It is found from sea level to 1300 meters.
It is a medium-sized plant. The pseudobulbs are cone- or egg-shaped and tightly grouped. It produces flowers on an unbranched or slightly branched flower stem 18 inches tall (45 cm). There are generally 6 to 10 flowers per stem.
Its flowering season begins in late spring and early summer, so this June don’t miss the opportunity to see this native orchid bloom, visit the Vallarta Botanical Garden.
