Achimenes longiflora


Achimenes longiflora has many common names including Cupid's bow, nut-orchid, and magic flower.
It can grow up to long, arising from small rhizomes. The hairy leaves have saw toothed edges and can be up to long and wide. The flowers are produced from June to October and are usually blue with a white throat. They can be quite large – up to long and across.
This flor de peña was collected and documented in late summer blooming on embankments and along roadsides at intermediate elevations in Guatemala in the 1970s by Carol Rogers Chickering.