Encyclia moebusii x Encyclia atrorubens

Encyclia moebusii is a very hard-to-come-by compact species from northeastern Cuba.

Encyclia atrorubens is a species native to the Oaxaca and Guerrero states of Mexico.

It has branched spikes and carries an abundance of flowers per inflorescence.

In this hybrid offspring, we have noticed the plants are staying super compact--8" tall or so, yet are making quite a show with lightly branched 3' spikes. All of this while blooming in 2" pots!

We can't wait to see what this cross is going to do as the plants mature--we anticipate tight foliage that will be able to remain in small pot sizes and bloom with an abundance of spikes. 

Encyclia moebusii

A very rare orchid from Cuba. Almost impossible to find! Found in northeastern Cuba in the Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa Massif zone on igneous rocks in wet thickets and pine woods or at the base of small trees and shrubs on montane slopes at elevations around 300 to 960 meters.

Medium to large sized, hot to warm growing lithophyte occurring on igneous rock exposed to sunlight with green to violet, fusiform pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2, green suffused with violet, linear to lanceolate, very coriaceous, 2 to 4 [5 to 10 cm] long, basally coinduplicate leaves that blooms in the later spring through summer on a terminal, erect, peduncle 8.8 to 19.2 [22 to 48 cm] long, racemose to sparsely paniculate, each branch .6 to 8.4 [1.5 to 21 cm] long, 2 to 10 flowered, overall 9.4 to 28" long, 5 to 15 flowered inflorescence.

Encyclia atrorubens

A bifoliate, medium sized, cool growing epiphytic species found only in Oaxaca and Guerrero states of Mexico at elevations of 1100 to 2000 meters mostly in humid, oak forests.

A bifoliate, medium sized, cool growing epiphytic species found only in Oaxaca and Guerrero states of Mexico at elevations of 1100 to 2000 meters mostly in humid, oak forests with clustered, conical to spherical pseudobulbs carrying 2 narrow, linear leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, 40 [1 meter+] long, branched, many [20 to 100] flowered inflorescence. FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/2 inches

This is a near to blooming size in a 3.3" pot newly repotted, about 1 year to blooming