Dracula sodiroi
An endangered Dracula endemic to the wet cloud forests of northwestern and northern Ecuador, where most records come from Pichincha around Mindo and Cerro La Bola, with one from Carchi. Like its relatives it is an epiphyte of cool, constantly moist, shaded montane forest, and it needs cool nights, very high humidity and flowing air. Grow it in a basket so the flowers can hang through the sides.
Where it grows wild
It grows as an epiphyte in the wet montane cloud forests of the western Andean slopes of northern Ecuador, on mossy trunks and branches in shade, where fog and rain keep the air nearly saturated.
Collections with elevation data lie between about 2,350 m and 2,560 m.
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