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Orchid Species: Epidendrum garciae
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Epidendrum garciae is an orchid species identified by Pabst in 1976.
ORIGIN: Found in Bahia Brazil at elevations around 50 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte found on cacoa tree trunks in partial shade with simple, laterally compressed, erect to somewhat flexuous stems carrying 2 to 4, ovate, bilobed, green leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an apical, sessile inflorescence with shorter than the ovary, triangular, acute floral bracts carrying 1 to 2, simultaneous, resupinate flowers with an intense, sweet fragrance at night and sunup.
FLOWER SIZE: 2.4 inches [6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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