Gomesa are small epiphytic orchids from Brazil. Our plant spent several years in the growing--on house, but never flowered there. We moved it out to a tree-fern trunk in the shade-house last summer (1999-2000), and it looked much happier and put on a lot of new growth, then flowered May 2000. The shade-house is cooler, shadier, and more humid during the day, which corresponds to the advice in our orchid book which says Gomesa "...require good drainage, shade and humidity." (Hodgson, 1991 page 133)
