It has multiple red lobes and a red throat with a heavily-textured center crest having intensely red-colored ridges. The lip looks like it has been carefully decorated using red lipstick.� The hinged lip is also of very heavy substance, having a stiff, plastic-like quality.
What you have described is very typical of orchids which are bird pollinated. Red color attracts birds, such as hummingbirds. The lips and centers of these orchids have to be very sturdy to withstand being probed by the bird's beak.
As far as I know, the cruentum group are cool growing (I can't grow most of them in my warm conditions). Many orchids in cool locations where there is not an abundance of insects have evolved bird pollination. Now the experts will tell me if I am all wet about D. cruentum.
Iris
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