Dinema polybulbon

This pretty little species is native to Central America where it grows in open forests from  600 to 3200m scrambling over the trunks and lower branches of tropical oaks.

The flowers produced singly from the tops of the most recent bulbs and are produced in profusion from this vigorous and straight forward species.

We grow our plants mounted on cork bark which allows the plant to scramble around as it does in wild plants and when it grows off the mount we encourage it to grow around the mount with little wires.

The natural range of the species accounts for its tolerance of warm and cool temperatures making this species a joy to grow. We grow plants in our cloud forest greenhouse (min 12C) where it seems very at home. As plants are mounted we spray them daily and twice a day in hot summer days.

The flowers are fragrant in the day time suggesting that the species is butterfly pollinated.