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Orchid Species: Epidendrum schweinfurthianum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Epidendrum schweinfurthianum is an orchid species identified by Correll in 1947.
ORIGIN: Found in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador at elevations around 1500 to 2400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large to giant sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with tall leafy stem that can exceed 14ft. tall, it flowers profusely with beautiful branching heads of 1 1/2 blooms, purple on the outside and orange-purple inside with yellow tips and a purple multi-lobed lip, plants will stay under 4ft if grown in full sun. Blooming occurs in the fall to early winter. This plant has slender, simple, cane-like, terete, thin, erect to arching stems enveloped basally by tubular, leafless sheaths and carrying alternate, articulate, lanceolate, acute, minutely apiculate, subcoriaceous leaves all held in the apical half and blooms on a racemose to 4 [10 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence that may be racemose or paniculate.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 1/2 inches [3.75 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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