Leptotes (plant) are mounted on plaques of vegetal fiber or tree cork. Watering and fertilizer must be more frequent during active growth periods and less during dormant periods. Ideal growth conditions require an intermediate temperature and exposure to filtered sunlight. In April 1833, an unknown species from the Serra dos Órgãos mountains of Brazil blossomed in the greenhouse of Mrs. Arnold Harrison, an English collector of orchids homaged in diverse descriptions of noted species such as "Bifrenaria harrisoniae" and "Cattleya harrisoniana". A short time later, Mrs. Harrison sent a drawing and cutting of this plant to the botanist John Lindley, who verified
Portia labiata webs to deceive the prey and detouring for a stab in the back. A test in 2001 showed that four jumping species take nectar, either by sucking it from the surface of flowers or biting the flowers with their fangs. The spiders fed in cycles of two to four minutes, then groomed, especially their chelicerae, before another cycle. A more formal part of the test showed that 90 juvenile jumping spiders, including "P. labiata", generally prefer to suck from blotting soaked with a 30% solution of sugar in water rather than paper soaked with pure water. The authors suggest that,