Cattleya trianae Cattleya trianae Cattleya trianae (Lind. & Rchb. fil), also known as "Flor de Mayo" ("May flower") or "Christmas orchid", is a plant belonging to the Orchidaceae family. It grows as an epiphytic orchid, with succulent leaves, endemic to Colombia where it was nominated as the national flower in November 1936. That year, the National Academy of History of Argentina asked the Latin American countries to participate in an exhibition with the representative flowers of each country. The Colombian government gave the botanist Emilio Robledo the task to designate the most representative flowering plant of the country. The choice of "Cattleya
Portia labiata specimens. The following table shows the hunting performance of adult females. In addition to "P. labiata", the table shows for comparison the hunting performances of "P. africana", "P. schultzi" and three regional variants of "P. fimbriata". A female "P. labiata" often hangs a capture web from pliant stems and leaves of shrubs and lower branches of trees, rather than from rocks and tree trunks. Males of "Portia" do not build capture webs. A female "P. labiata" more often pursues small jumping spiders and web spiders than larger prey. While it more often catches small jumping spiders than larger ones, it