Genus Stanhopea Frost: species

Stanhopea tigrina
var.
nigroviolacea Morren
A Stanhopea-species with big flowers, up to 18 cm. The illustrations here come from a plant that survived 'since ever' in a hughe paper production factory in Zarnesti, Brasov district Rumania. Many of those hughe factories (all kind) used the spare heat to heat hughe greenhouses. In those greenhouse flowers ware grown or vegetables such as salads, tomatoes, peperonies, ...

I grow a Stanhopea tigrina var. nigroviolacea in my temperate greenhouse, bright and the compost almost never drys out.

 

Also take a look at The Astonishing
STANHOPEAS
the upside-down orchids
Barney Greer

and at

The Genus Stanhopea
part 1 & 2

part 1: S. anfracta to S. napoensis
part 2: S. nigripes to S. xytriophora

Italian Journal of Orchidology
Journal of the European Orchid Council