Lepanthes ricaurtensis, Rio Ñambi, Colombia

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Christine Young

Lion

Beautiful!! And, weird in that it kind of looks like a mouth puckering up for a kiss. Posted 6 years ago, modified 6 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  Well, I was planning to keep this to myself, but you're triggering me. When photographing this one, Manuel contemplated a theory. Yes, lepanthes are beautiful. But that doesn't seem reason enough for the collectors to be so extremely obsessed over them, and almost all of them being men. His theory was that this is because they look like...you can fill in the blanks.
  
  So yeah, now you'll never look at them the same. Sorry! Posted 6 years ago
2. 1. Christine Young
    
    Lion
    
    Ha, well. That was my first thought also... Posted 6 years ago, modified 6 years ago
  2. 1. Ferdy Christant
      
      Lion
      
      "Mouth" Posted 6 years ago

The Lepanthes ricaurtensis

Found in Narino Colombia at elevations around 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, suberect ramicauls enveloped by 5 to 9, microscopically ciliate lepanthiform sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, acuminate, conspicuously tridentate, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a congested, distichous, .8" [2 cm] long including the .6” [1.5 cm] long peduncle, successively several flowered.. more

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Similar species: Agaves, Aloes, Onions

Species identified by Ferdy Christant