Epidendrum calanthum
Also
known mini lavender pink reed stem, this orchid distributes from the
montane Tropical rainforest of Bolivia (including Cochabamba), Colombia,
Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, and the West Indies.
This species is sympodial habit, terete stems covered from the base
with close, tubular, disthicous sheathes which are leaf-bearing on the
upper part of the stem, and a terminal peduncle covered from its base
with close, tubular sheathes. The stem grows up to 1 m tall below the
inflorescence, and the inflorescnece itself grow to 0.4 m tall, with the
white to pink resupinate flowers born in a congested raceme at the end.
The leaves grow to 10 cm long.
Remarkably this orchid can grow well here in Malaysia with no season.
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole~William Makepeace Thackeray
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