Cattleya tigrina
Cattleya tigrina, long grown as C. leopoldii, is a tall bifoliate cattleya from the Atlantic coast of southern and southeastern Brazil. Its canes reach 30–50 cm or more and carry clusters of fragrant, spotted greenish-brown to reddish-brown flowers 8–10 cm across with a purple lip, in the southern summer. It likes bright light, humid air, a warm summer and a cool winter.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte in narrow strips of humid coastal forest winding between lagoons, wetlands and dunes in the Atlantic restinga, also reaching inland along river margins and mountain passes. It is now nearly extinct in the wild in parts of its southern range because of collecting and habitat loss.
Mainly lowland, from near sea level along the coast, extending into foothills along rivers and passes. Our measured data file had no usable wild GBIF records for this name, so no measured climate is available.
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