Cattleya laelia dayana tipo

Cattleya laelia dayana tipo

Found in Brazil at elevations of 500 to 2000 meters in the Organ Mountains near Rio on lichen covered trees in forests as a small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with cylindrical pseudobulbs enveloped basally by scarious sheaths and carrying a single, fleshy, broad leaf that blooms in the summer till fall on a 1.2″ [3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Mount on a tree fern slab and give bright light, air circulation and cool to warm temperatures as well as a dry winter rest to encourage blooming