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Orchid Species: Aspasia variegata
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Aspasia variegata is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1836.
ORIGIN: Found in Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia in moist forests at elevations of 200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a creeping, slender, bracteate rhizome and laterally strongly flattened, ellipsoid to oblong, glossy light green pseudobulbs that become lightly sulcate with age, subtended by 2 to 3 leaf bearing sheaths and carrying one or two, apical, glabrous, subcoriaceous, lanceolate to ligulate, acute, basally conduplicate and articulate leaves, blooming in the spring and summer on an ascending, few to several flowered, to 10 [25 cm] long, racemose inflorescence that gives rise to a few, successively opening, fragrant flowers This terrestrial orchid grows in hot temperatures with high humidity and moderate shade. After flowering a short 1 to 2 month rest is beneficial, resume watering and fertilizer with the onset of new growth and flowers best if given very cramped quarters in a small pot.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 3/4 inch [4.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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