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Cordula glaucophylla is an orchid species identified by (J.J.Sm.) Rolfe in 1912. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Paphiopedilum glaucophyllum.
ORIGIN: From central Sumatra and Java that is found at an elevation of 200-800 meters in deposits of humus on volcanic mountain slopes.
DESCRIPTION: This is a small sized, hot to warm growing, multiflowered, although most often only one is open at a time, terrestrial species with clear blue-green, dull leaves with 4 to 6, glaucous, narrowly oblong-elliptic leaves with ciliate basal margins and blooms from the spring through summer on a pubescent, dark green mottled dark purple, to 1 1/2' [40 cm] long, inflorescence carrying elliptic to ovate floral bracts and carrying many [to 20] successively opening flowers with never more than 2 open at a time and occurs over months.
FLOWER SIZE: 3 or more inches [8 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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