Trichoceros antennifer Lepanthes grows on tree trunks and

grows on tree trunks and mossy branches in warm

an intermediate grower that benefits from a nighttime temperature drop to encourage blooming

preferably above 70%

overlapping petals and a small

The small blooms feature ovate

Trichoceros antennifer Lepanthes grows on tree trunks andA cool growing epiphytic orchid endemic to Ecuador, producing flowers that are among the most extraordinary examples of insect mimicry in the plant kingdom. The broad, flat sepals and petals frame a highly elaborate labellum with a densely hirsute surface and two articulated, antenna like lateral appendages that precisely mimic the body and antennae of a fly deceiving male dipterans into pseudocopulation and achieving pollination without offering any