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Lycaste skinneri

Lycaste skinneri

Suora Bianca · Monja Blanca
Luce
Bright, indirect light, a little less than cattleya, to ripen the pseudobulbs and encourage flowering. avoid direct midday sun on the soft, pleated, often deciduous leaves.
Acqua
Water plentifully while in active growth, keeping the medium evenly moist. as the leaves yellow and drop in autumn, reduce water for a cooler, drier winter rest, then resume when new growth starts.
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Lycaste skinneri (sin. L. virginalis) è il fiore nazionale del Guatemala (la 'Monja Blanca'), che produce fiori grandi da rosa tenue a bianco. Coltivatore di foresta nebbiosa da fresco a intermedio, è la Lycaste più vistosa e genitore di molti ibridi. Le popolazioni selvatiche sono pesantemente depauparate.

Guida alla cura

Luce

Bright, indirect light, a little less than Cattleya, to ripen the pseudobulbs and encourage flowering. Avoid direct midday sun on the soft, pleated, often deciduous leaves.

Acqua

Water plentifully while in active growth, keeping the medium evenly moist. As the leaves yellow and drop in autumn, reduce water for a cooler, drier winter rest, then resume when new growth starts.

Substrato

Free-draining but moisture-retentive epiphyte mix (medium bark with some perlite and sphagnum).

Temperatura e umidità

Cool to intermediate, 12–25 °C with a night drop; high humidity in growth, drier during the rest.

Concimazione

Feed weakly weekly during active growth; reduce or stop during the winter rest.

Potatura

Remove the deciduous leaves once yellowed and any spent spikes; handle the soft new growths carefully. Non-toxic.

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