Encyclia Orchid - Encyclia alata 'H&R' x 'Super Lip'

Encyclia Orchid - Encyclia alata 'H&R' x 'Super Lip'

Encyclia Orchid - Encyclia alata orchids are found in Mexico, belize, Guatemala, Honduras,, El Salvador, Nicaragua Costa Rica and Panama ocurring at altitudes of sealevel to 1000 meters, epiphytically on trees in open forests and occasionally terrestrially in soil pockets as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing species with ovoid-conical to pyriform pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 3 apical, linear-lanceolate, acute, tough leaves that are often tinged with purple. It has a honey-sweet smelling fragrance and they bloom in the spring through fall on an apical, to 150 cm long, arching, branched inflorescence with many, variable in color and shape flowers. There can be diverse differences in flower morphology in this species most often in size and the shape of the lateral sides of the lip, this cross has used this to its advantage.