Saturday, June 10, 2017

Dracula orchid - vampira “Bela Lugosi”

dracula vampira Bela Lugosi
Some of my dracula ( name means Little dragon) orchids started blooming  - they are fascinating specie found in moist forests from Mexico to Peru with the greater concentration in Colombia and Ecuador.
 They have large, beautiful flowers that hang on long steams and the genus comprises of about 90 species and vampira is one of these species -  it’s native to Ecuador and only found in one place - on the slopes of Mount Pichincha.
The flowers of dracula vampira mostly dark in color with many beautiful patterns and lines on the petals. They need to grow in hanging baskets so that they can send their spikes through the bottom of the planters. I try to grow my plant with plenty of moisture in filtered light and in any given season it would only produce one flower. Hopefully I was able to show the beauty of the bloom.

 My dracula vampira is variety “Bela Lugosi” - named after Hungarian - American actor, famous for playing Count Dracula and starring in other horror films with Boris Karloff.  To this day Bela Lugosi have huge following and his nickname is “The King of Horror” and some recon he was the best, most elegant Count Dracula. Here is the the blog dedicated to Bela Lugosi.


Thank you to EarthDracula31 for featuring Bela Lugosi - enjoy


6 comments:

  1. Hello dear Klara,
    The flowers of this orchid is bringing is stunning. It must be great to be surrounded by all this beautiful Orchids.
    Have a wonderful day.

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    1. Thank you for the visit and for checking out this dracula

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  2. Hi Klara!
    Thanks for sharing this marvelous and exotic orchid. This is an enigmatic species, that I admire so much.

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    1. Thank you for your comment and for the visit, let's hope this orchid forever enjoys growing on this one mountain in Ecuador - long live dracula vampira!

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  3. I haven't visited for a while, Klara. I see your orchids are as stunning as ever. Your 'dracula' is amazing! P. x

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    1. Thank you Pam for your visit and for enjoying Bela Lugosi dracula

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