Brassavola nodosa var. nodosa
Object Details
- Description
- This small orchid prefers hot to warm temperatures and has sweetly scented flowers.
- Pollination Syndrome
- Likely moth
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Accession Number
- 2022-0095A
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Life Form
- Epiphytic
- Bloom Characteristics
- Lateral inflorescence is 2.4" (6 cm) long with 2-3 green flowers that have a large, white lip and open simultaneously. Flowers are 4" (10 cm) across.
- Fragrance
- Sweet (at night)
- Range
- E and SE Mexico to Venezuala and SW and S Caribbean
- Habitat
- Wet tropics
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- Smithsonian Gardens Orchid Collection
- Common Name
- The Knobby Brassavola variety
- The Large Flowered Brassavola
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Magnoliidae
- Superorder
- Lilianae
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Subfamily
- Epidendroideae
- Genus
- Brassavola
- Species
- nodosa
- Topic
- Orchids
- Living Collections
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2022-0095A
