Makarimi Abdullah

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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