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Orchid Species: Mormodes fractiflexa
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Mormodes fractiflexa is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1872.
ORIGIN: Fascinating flowers that arrive in the winter and have a nice scent, are on an ascending inflorescence that arise from the mid section of a mature pseudobulb and comes from Costa Rica.
DESCRIPTION: Fascinating flowers that arrive in the winter and have a nice scent, are on an ascending inflorescence that arise from the mid section of a mature pseudobulb and comes from Costa Rica. A warm growing, deciduous plant that likes water and fertilizer after a 2 new growth has been initiated, and then water much less after the leaf fall, and blooms on a leafless plant in the winter.
FLOWER SIZE: 2.4 inches [6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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