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Vanda hookeri is an orchid species identified by auct. in 1882. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Papilionanthe hookeriana.
ORIGIN: Found in Vietnam, Thailand, peninsular Malaya, Sumatra, and Borneo in open, swampy areas of near the seacoast in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands in deep peaty soils that submerge annually in freshwater floods at elevations of sea-level to 700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large sized, ranging, terete leafed, hot to warm growing, monopodial terrestrial orchid that likes full sun with a slender, scrambling, terete, long stem carrying terete, sulcate, mucronate, constricted 3/4 below the apex leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an axillary, 12 [30 cm] long, sheathed at the base inflorescence that has large bracts and carrying several [2 to 12], large, showy, long-lived, successively opening flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: To more than 2 inches [5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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