You have monkey face, vampire fangs and a peculiar orange aroma … It is the Simian draculaan orchid with which Nature surprises us again.
These unique flowers come from southeastern Ecuador and the Peruvian forests, where they bloom throughout the year at elevations of 2.000 meters.
Discovered in 1978 by the botanist Luer, its scientific name is Dracula Simia. Dracula for the two long spurs on the sepals, which recall the fangs of the most famous vampire. And Simia, for the little monkey face that appears inside.
Each flower is different, they do not all have the same image and it has more than 120 species, which offer a great variety of colors and sizes: from the smallest that require a magnifying glass to observe them to those of 20 cm. wide.
