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Common names include ground-rooting epidendrum, fire-star orchid, crucifix orchid, [1] rainbow orchid, and reed-stem epidendrum. [ 2 ] The diagnostic characteristic of E. radicans is its tendency to sprout roots all along the length of the stem; other crucifix orchids only produce roots near the base. [ 3 ]
Orchids naturally shed old foliage. If the bottom leaves on a monopodial orchid turn yellow, the plant is probably just getting ready to drop them because the leaves are at the end of their life span.
Group of plants Inflorescence. Orchis purpurea reaches on average 30–100 centimetres (12–39 in) of height. The leaves are broad and oblong-lanceolate, forming a rosette about the base of the plant and surrounding the flower spike. They are fleshy and bright green, and can be up to 15 cm long.
In botany, a pseudobulb is a storage organ found in many epiphytic and terrestrial sympodial orchids. It is derived from a thickening of the part of a stem between leaf nodes and may be composed of just one internode or several, termed heteroblastic and homoblastic respectively. All leaves and inflorescences usually arise from
That’s powdery mildew, a fungus that affects a wide range of fruits, vegetables and flowers, coating their leaves, stems, blossoms and, in severe cases, entire plants. It isn’t pretty.
Phalaenopsis gigantea is a species of orchid endemic to the island of Borneo and was first described in 1909. [1] The specific epithet gigantea refers to the giant size of its fleshy leaves, which can grow to over 60 cm in length on a mature plant.
Bulbophyllum weinthalii, commonly known as the wax orchid, [2] is a species of epiphytic orchid that forms dense clumps on hoop pine (Araucaria cunninghamii). It has crowded pseudobulbs each with a single thin, leathery, dark green leaf and a single white, green or cream-coloured flower with red or purplish markings.
Cephalanthera austiniae is a species of orchid known as the phantom orchid and snow orchid [2] because the entire plant is white except for a few yellow markings on the flowers. The orchid is native to the western United States ( California , Oregon , Washington and Idaho ), and to British Columbia , Canada.