Maxillaria cucullata

[Ron-NY]

Wow-lovely! I've sure turned into a big Max. fan!

Be careful, they can be addictive, LOL. I think I now have 40 species of Maxillaria and one hybrid

[Elena]

Great flower!

Be careful, they can be addictive, LOL. I think I now have 40 species of Maxillaria and one hybrid

Ron, do you have Max schunkeana? I recently got one (also turning into a Max addict) and would love some culture tips.

[kfir from israel]

i dont know alot about maxillarias
but i do love what i c latelly in this forum-i wish to have 1 of this(thers allways room for one more orchid or a 100)
good on u man its beutiful

[Ron-NY]

Ron, do you have Max schunkeana? I recently got one (also turning into a Max addict) and would love some culture tips.

I don't but it is one I have admired. I grow the majority of my Maxillaria with similar cutlture and that would be similar to growing a Paph I grow them in a moisture retentive medium in bright light but 60% shadecloth and in the winter mine get some late afternoon sun. I don't believe that is one of the cool growers , so intermediate would be fine

Jay's site says: "Found in Espiritu Santo State, Brazil in the coastal Atlantic rainforest at elevations of 600 to 700 meters, growing as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with fusiform-cylindric pseudobulbs enveloped basally by deciduous leaf sheaths carrying 2, apical, erect, linear, conduplicate leaves and blooms in the summer in Brazil on a basal, short, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and holding the flower at pseudobulb height."