Restrepia trichoglossa is native to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica and Panama. The first plants were found in Colombia in the Cauca department, where they grew on trees in humid forests near Popayán, at an altitude of 1600-2000 m...
Restrepia trichoglossa also called as The Hairy Tongued Restrepia, Pleurothallis amesiana, Pleurothallis filamentosa, Pleurothallis subserrata, Restrepia angustilabia, Restrepia angustilabia subsp. subserrata, Restrepia antennifera subsp. leontoglossa, Restrepia brachypus subsp. serrilabia, Restrepia filamentosa, Restrepia lankesteri, Restrepia leontoglossa, Restrepia serrilabia, Restrepia subserrata, Restrepia trichoglottis, is a species of the genus Restrepia. This species was described by Friedrich Carl Lehmann ex Henry Frederick Conrad Sander in 1901.
IDENTIFY RESTREPIA TRICHOGLOSSA
Restrepia trichoglossa is native to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica and Panama. The first plants were found in Colombia in the Cauca department, where they grew on trees in humid forests near Popayán, at an altitude of 1600-2000 m. Since then, they have been found in numerous other locations in Western and Southern Colombia, at heights of 1000-2000 m. They are also found in Ecuador, mainly at altitudes of 1300-1800 m, but there are reports of finding them much lower, at only 300 m, and much higher, at an altitude of 3280 m. They are found in Peru in the department Amazonast. In Panama, these plants are found in the province of Chiriquí at an altitude of 1800-2200m.
It is a small sized, warm to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with the 2-9 cm long ramicaul concealed by 4 to 8, large, compressed scarious, tubular, imbricate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic-ovate, minutely bidentate, broadly cuneate to rounded base contacted into the twisted petiolate base, 3-6 cm long and 1.5-3.0 cm wide leaf.
The Hairy Tongued Restrepia blooms on a terminal, 5 cm long, successively single flowered, fasciculate inflorescence held in a fascile, with a obovate, obtuse, inflated floral bract holding the flowers above and behind the leaf and has sheathed bracts occurring in the summer and early fall. The flowers are 3 cm in diameter and have narrow segments that curved from the base to the front, forming a slightly cup-shaped flower. The dorsal petal is transparent white with a purple middle nerve. Variable outer side petals are bright yellow to pale yellow and even pale pink and may have thin red to brown parallel lines or parts, or small red-brown spots, especially below half, which disappear near the apex. Sometimes, however, they can be covered with lines all over the surface, and sometimes they are only slightly dotted. The inner coat flakes are transparent white and often have dark spots at the base. The lip is yellow or orange and is spotted brown and purple. The backbone is white, but is often colored in pink.
RESTREPIA TRICHOGLOSSA CARE AND CULTURE
Cultural information should only be used as a guide, and should be to be adapted to suit you. Your physical location; where you grow your plants, how much time you have to devote to their care, and many other factors, will need to be taken into account. Only then can you decide on the cultural methods that best suit you and your plants.
Light:
Restrepia trichoglossa needs a light level of 15000-23000 lux. The light should be filtered or dispersed, and the plants should not be exposed to direct sunlight in the afternoon hours. Strong air movement should be ensured all the time.
Temperature:
It is a plant with moderate thermal requirements. Throughout the year, the average day temperature is 23-25 ° C, and the average night temperature is 11 ° C, with a daily amplitude of 12-14 ° C.
Humidity:
The Hairy Tongued Restrepia needs the humidity of 75% for most of the year, falling to 60-65% in a few months of late summer and early autumn.
Substrate, growing media and repotting:
Restrepia trichoglossa grow well in small plastic pots with any relatively small substrate for orchids that drains excess water well. They grow well also tightly fixed on rootstocks of tree ferns, cork or on pieces of branches. However, if you are assembling them, a moss pad should be wrapped around the roots. Epiphytic cultivation also requires maintaining high humidity, and in the summer of daily watering. In the case of such suspended plants, during the dry and hot periods it may be necessary to water several times a day.
These plants do not tolerate the unfolded substrate and should be repotted as soon as the substrate begins to decompose or grow out of the pots. If repotting is done at the time when new roots begin to appear, the plant will be accepted and rooted in the shortest possible time.
Watering:
Precipitation is abundant for most of the year, with a short, only slightly drier 2-month period of summer. The cultivated plants should be abundantly watered during active growth and should never be completely dried. Drainage must be perfect, however, and the substrate around the roots should never be soggy or spread.
Fertilizer:
During the active growth, the plant should be fertilized every week 1/4-1/2 of the recommended dose of fertilizer for orchids. You can use sustainable fertilizers throughout the year, but you can also use fertilizer with an increased nitrogen content from spring to mid-summer, and then, in late summer and autumn, fertilizer enriched with phosphorus.
Rest period:
Watering in winter can be somewhat reduced, especially in the case of Restrepia trichoglossa in darker conditions of a short day typical of higher latitudes. However, these plants should never be dried. If watering is limited, fertilization should also be reduced.
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