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Gomesa blanchetii is a Brazilian orchid that grows as an epiphyte or on rocks, forming clusters of pseudobulbs with rigid leaves and long branched flower spikes in spring and summer. It is a cool-growing species from mid-elevation mountains, so it needs bright light, good airflow and a cooler, drier rest period than tropical orchids.
Gomesa blanchetii is a species of orchid native to eastern and southern Brazil. Found in the cool mountains, hot and humid lowlands and inland savannahs of eastern and southeastern Brazil as a medium-sized, cool growing epiphyte that occurs at elevations of 800 to 2000 meters with clustered, erect, oblong or narrowly ovoid-oblong, compressed, smooth and then sulcate with age pseudobulbs carrying 3 apical, erect, rigid, coriaceous, narrowly linear-ligulate, acute leaves and blooms in the spring through summer on an erect, 2' to 5'4"" (60 to 160 cm) long, robust, paniculate, many flowered inflorescence that is longer than the leaves and has concave, lanceolate bracts.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gomesa blanchetii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
