Cattleya maxima

Renowned for its captivating beauty, this exquisite orchid is a variation of the Cattleya maxima species native to the lush landscapes of Central and South America. Collectors and orchid enthusiasts are drawn to Cattleya maxima for its striking appearance and delightful fragrance. In its natural habitat, this orchid thrives as an epiphyte, gracefully attaching itself to trees or other plants, gracefully absorbing nutrients from the air and rain. Now, you have the opportunity to bring this exotic beauty into your home and experience the joy of nurturing its magnificent blooms. From Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and northern coastal Peru that is found at elevations of 10 to 1500 meters in seasonally dry, coastal forests. A medium sized, cool to warm growing, unifoliate, epiphyte and occasional lithophyte with clavate, lightly complante, sulcate pseudobulbs subtended by several, imbricating, nonfoliaceous sheaths and a single, apical, oblong or narrowly elliptic-oblong, clasping, obtuse, m