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About
This small, tough orchid, *Brassavola nodosa*, is highly prized by collectors for its showy flowers and exceptionally strong, white floral fragrance, which intensifies in the evening to attract night-pollinating moths.
Field notes
Distribution & habitat
Mexico (from Tamaulipas south to Chiapas and the Yucatán Peninsula), Central America, the West Indies, and northern South America (Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana and French Guiana).
Habitat
- Altitude
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- Altitude Class
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- Native To
- Guyana, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico
Cultivation
- Difficulty
- easy
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