Bulbophyllum championii

This stunning flower is 2cm across on a miniature plant with leaves up to 6cm long.

The species is native to New Guinea and we find it thrives mounted indoors in our Ikea Cabinets. As you can see from our photothe species produces lots of roots which indicates that its habitat does have dry periods (species form very wet cloud forests hardly bother with roots!)

We keep our cabinets at a minimum of 17C but the species would cope with a little warmer of cooler.

It is intriguing to note the similarities between the flowers of Bulbophyllum championii and masdevallias from South and Central America (see masdevallia astoricha photo 3) . A great example of parallel evolution.