Oncidium spilopterum

[kavanaru]

Actually a rather small plant, but with a very tall spike (as far as I have it in my memory... I have seen it only once life, and it was 1996)

[Rosim_in_BR]

Originally Posted by kavanaru

Actually a rather small plant, but with a very tall spike (as far as I have it in my memory... I have seen it only once life, and it was 1996)

That's it!

[Jerry Delaney]

Mauro, someone once told that this species sometimes grows in swampy areas and that their roots sometimes dangle in the water. Is that true? It is certainly an impressive flower.

[Rosim_in_BR]

Originally Posted by Jerry Delaney

Mauro, someone once told that this species sometimes grows in swampy areas and that their roots sometimes dangle in the water. Is that true? It is certainly an impressive flower.

Not at all, Jerry! The plant is rupicolous, sometimes terrestrial in the same sense of Zygopetalums (roots mixed with the grass rhizomes), but certainly not in swampy areas .