Masdevallia ventricosa

Masdevallia ventricosa is one of our smaller growing and smaller flowered masdevallias. Its cute little long lasting flowers are pale yellow with lemon yellow tails and are pretty in bud as well as when open.

Masdevallia ventricosa is endemic to Ecuador and is found in cool forest between 1450 and 2000m. We find that the species thrives both mounted on cork and in pots although its ascending habit is easier to manage on a cork mount as here in our photographs.

We grow these vigorous plants low down in our Cloud Forest greenhouse so that they stay cool and shady during the summer months.