Grow in an open bark-based orchid compost with addition of perlite, sphagnum moss or coir. Provide enough bright filtered light, but keep away from direct sunlight or a heating source. Ideal temperatures are around 15°C minimum at night and up to maximum 25 °C during day.

Brassia will flower naturally in the parameters of late winter to late summer, producing up to eight flowers per stalk. Each flower can last up to three weeks with the overall show surfacing around six to eight weeks.

Brassia caudata, commonly called the Spider Orchid, occurs in Mexico, West Indies, Central and northern South America and Florida. This epiphyte has strongly flattened pseudobulbs with two glossy, relatively long, green leaves that spread out from the apex.

Brassia is a genus included in the Oncidium alliance. in other words, it shares many characteristics with other members of the Oncidium alliance, including the actual genus Oncidium. if the vendor sold it as a Brassia, then it probably is.