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Ancistrochilus hirsutissimus is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. in 1914. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Ancistrochilus rothschildianus.
ORIGIN: A sympodial, deciduous leaved orchid, with pseudobulbs that look like Hershey's kisses. It is a warm to cool growing epiphyte from Guinea, Sierra Leone and across to Uganda on bare trunks and larger branches of large forest trees at elevations of 500 to 1100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A sympodial, deciduous leaved orchid, with pseudobulbs that look like Hershey's kisses. It is a warm to cool growing epiphyte from Guinea, Sierra Leone and across to Uganda on bare trunks and larger branches of large forest trees at elevations of 500 to 1100 meters that can be potted and watered regularly while growing and less when not. This small to medium sized epiphyte has clustered, conical or pyriform pseudobulbs with 2 apical, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute or acuminate, broad, thin textured leaves and blooms in the winter, summer and fall on a basal, arching, to 8 long, pubescent inflorescence, from from the base of the leafed or leafless pseudobulb and can carry 2 to 5, large, fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 to 3 inches [5.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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