Stelis tridentata

Stelis tridentata has 3cm oval leaves on short stems and each produces a 6cm flower spike of about 40 3mm flowers. The flowers are a diaphanous creamy gold. The species has a wide native range from Costa Rica in the north to Ecuador in the south and is found in cloud forest from 2000 to 2400m.

As a result Stelis tridentata is a cool growing species that flowers in mid-winter. We grow the species in deep shade and keep plants well watered throughout the year in our "Cloud Forest Glasshouse" with a minimum temperature of 12C although plants are happy to grow warmer as long as kept shaded.