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Orchid Species: Aeranthes nidus
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Aeranthes nidus is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1925.
ORIGIN: Found in northern Madagascar in forests on moss and lichen covered trees at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Warm to cool growing epiphyte with several stems which colonize and make large clumping masses around tree trunks with elongated stems enveloped compeletly by leaf sheaths and carrying narrowly linear, narrowing towards the base to form a pseudopetiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on many, erect, 1 to 1.2 [2.5 to 3 cm] long, successively single flowered, all along the stem inflorescence enveloped by a few widely separated sheaths that can rebloom for years if left uncut.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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