Encyclia vitellina (Lindl.) Dressler. 1961 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by OrchidMania.

Plants and Flowers ensitu in Mexico

Plant en situ in Mexico Photo courtesy of Weman Bussey.

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Common Name The Yolk-Yellow Encyclia - In Mexico - "Manuelitos"

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

This medium sized, epiphytic species can be found in Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua in oak, pine/oak, and scrub around lava flows and cloud forests at altitudes of 1400 to 2600 meters where it is cool to cold growing and blooms in the spring through fall on a apical, 12" to 18" cm [30 to 45cm] long, simple to few branched inflorescence that has a basal sheath and arises on a mature, conical-ovoid, slightly compressed psuedobulb with two, apical, subcoriaceous, narrowly elliptic, obtuse leaves carrying 4 to 12, long-lived, orange to deep scarlet, showy, resupinate, wide open flowers and requires a dry winter rest ending with the onset of new growth in the early spring.

Synonyms *Epidendrum vitellinum Lindl. 1831; Prosthechea vitellina (Lindl.) W.E. Higgins 1997

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