Do you have a plant for sale or trade
which you cannot ship or do not want to bother shippping?
No problem.
Click here to make a local-only offer.
It's a free service to our members.
Hetaeria albida is an orchid species identified by Blume in 1825. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Vrydagzynea albida.
ORIGIN: Found in Assam, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, New Guinea and the Philippines in lower montane tropical rainforests along stream banks in very dark, damp places at elevations of 250 to 1840 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial orchid with creeping rhizomes giving rise to erect stems, to 8 [20 cm] tall, carrying 6 to 8, spaced out, ovate, acuminate, slightly asymetrical, shiny green, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring through early fall on a terminal, densely many [20] flowered, 2.2 [5.5 cm]long, pubescent inflorescence with the few to many at a time, sequentially opening flowers all held in an apical corymb.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Author is Ken Slump, posted almost 4 years ago
Suggestions for Choosing Plants Requiring Minimal Care
THIS SEEMS LIKE AN IDEAL TOPIC for an article. Many of us want to enjoy orchid flowers with a minimum of fuss and I have found that most ...
Read More
Beginners Start Here
Author is Ken Slump, posted almost 4 years ago
A 12-Step Plan for Becoming a Successful Orchid Grower
IF YOU ARE NEW TO THE ORCHID hobby and perhaps feel you are not enjoying the success with your plants that you had hoped for, read throug...
Read More
Water: The Most Important Nutrient
Author is Roy Tokunaga, posted over 4 years ago
We take water for granted. It falls out of the sky. It flows from the faucet. Oahu city water is considered good for growing Orchids. We use it without thought or concern.
If you study orch...
Read More