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Lycaste lasioglossa

Lycaste lasioglossa
Photo: Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892) del. et lith. Description by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817—1911), Public domain

Lycaste lasioglossa is a terrestrial orchid with pseudobulbs and large flowers, native to cloud forests of Mexico and Central America. It is grown as a cool to intermediate greenhouse or shadehouse orchid, kept evenly moist during growth and rested drier afterward.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water freely while growing and new pseudobulbs are forming, then reduce watering after growth matures and keep the pseudobulbs from shriveling.
Soil
Free-draining epiphytic orchid mix of bark, perlite and charcoal, or a terrestrial mix if grown in ground beds.
Temperature
12–28 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Mexico (Chiapas) to Honduras
Climate
wet tropical

About

Lycaste lasioglossa is a species of terrestrial orchid native to Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.

Other Lycaste plants

Sweet scented Lycaste · Lycaste cruenta · Lycaste macrophylla · Lycaste powellii · Lycaste skinneri · Lycaste xytriophora · Lycaste

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lycaste lasioglossa 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.

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