Masdevallia melanoglossa Jatropha Light: Bright filtered light with

Light: Bright filtered light with up to 60–70% shade cloth

which can stress the slender pseudobulbs and foliage

Best grown mounted on cork

prized for its unusually elongated orange caudas that extend dramatically from each sepal

Masdevallia melanoglossa Jatropha Light: Bright filtered light withA robust epiphyte native to the cloud forests of Ecuador, producing multiple simultaneous blooms on horizontal, racemose scapes among large, fleshy, ovate leaves. The fully open, trilobulate flowers feature three separate, translucent sepals each tapering into long, filiform, arching tails the dorsal projecting upward and the laterals sweeping downward creating a graceful, spider like silhouette. Light: 7080% shade cloth; avoid direct midday sun.