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ORIGIN: A large terrestrial sometimes epiphytic plant with large, clustered, conical-pyriform, sulcate, slightly compressed pseudobulbs with 3 to 4, deciduous, apical, plicate, obovate or elliptical, obtuse leaves found at elevations of 1800 to 2500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: A large terrestrial sometimes epiphytic plant with large, clustered, conical-pyriform, sulcate, slightly compressed pseudobulbs with 3 to 4, deciduous, apical, plicate, obovate or elliptical, obtuse leaves found at elevations of 1800 to 2500 meters, commonly called the Cradle Orchid, as it has a rocking lip, which is enclosed completely by the sepals and petals as in a tulip which gives the plant it's other common name the Tulip Orchid. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela on the eastern slope of the Andes next to the Llanos and is a cool to cold growing orchid that has large, waxy, highly fragrant, solitary flowers smelling of wintergreen and chocolate occurring from the spring through the summer on an erect, 12 [30 cm] long, sheathed, often 2 inflorescence holding the flowers at mid-leaf height that arise basally as the new growths appear in the late winter.
FLOWER SIZE: 3 1/4 long inches [8 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).