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Limodorum dipterum is an orchid species identified by Tausch ex Steud. in 1841. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Cryptopus elatus.
ORIGIN: Found in the Mauritius and Reunion on tree trunks, bushes and rocks at elevations of sea leavel to 800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, hotwarm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with sinuous stems carrying towards the apex, widely spaced, oblong to elliptic, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, erect, simple or with 1 to 2 lower branches, 12 to 24 [30 to 60 cm] long, 7 to 13 flowered inflorescence with 3 to 4, pedunculate bracts and small floral bracts and white flowers that turn apricot with age.
FLOWER SIZE: 2.5 inches [6.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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