Cattleya amethystoglossa

Cattleya amethystoglossa is found in Bahia, Minas Gerais and Pernambuco states of Brazil as a large sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte at elevations around 600 meters growing on rock outcrops near the sea and on palms in full sun with lots of warmth and humid air with tall, cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical leaves that blooms in the fall, winter and early spring with a terminal, several to many [10 to 30] flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers.

This species needs ample light, water and fertilizer while growing and a definite rest when in dormancy.

This species is very similar to C guttata yet differs in the flowers which here are white or pale rose, spotted dark rose or mauve on the sepals and petals and the lip has white lateral lobes, a magenta midlobe and a pale golden or white throat.