A while back I pored through OB posts on Miltonias. I came across a number of posts by WhiteRabbit where she speaks of how she cares for her Miltonia flavescens, like
this one.
I know it grows in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and friends have told me how hot and cold it gets there. There is a photograph one can find searching of a plant in the crotch of a tree there covered with snow (though it does not get much below freezing and snow is very rare there.) I thought, "I can grow that!", and began looking.
This plant came to me from Hausermann's in mid March of this year. It had three old pseudobulbs, the most recent with a dried inflorescence, and three new growths pushing from that growth.
I was gone for a week at the end of March. On my return I found a well-advanced flower spike from one of the newest growths. It has been in bloom for almost two weeks now. It has a nice floral-spicy fragrance when I poke my nose into the flowers. Maybe I'll get flowers on the other new growths?
In the photo you can see the plant in its 3.25" / 8.25cm square pot on the concrete slab.
Thank you, WhiteRabbit!
Miltonia flavescens
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