Lepanthes gargantua Syngonium Best grown in a well-draining

Best grown in a well-draining bark-based mix or directly in the ground in frost-free climates

This charming species produces delicate flowers with distinctive coloration and graceful form

Humidity: High humidity is essential for this species

A rare collector's gem prized for its near-black flowers — one of the darkest of any orchid species

Lepanthes gargantua Syngonium Best grown in a well-drainingA large growing species native to Ecuador, remarkable within the genus for its size. It develops broad, finely velutinous elliptic leaves and produces dense racemes of multiple simultaneous flowers from the leaf base, each with broad translucent ovate sepals forming a compact globose concave structure and an elaborate central floral complex with bilobed petals and a prominent contrasting labellum at the opening. Light: Bright indirect light with 6070%