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| Angraecoids and related species from Africa, Madagascar and Comoro Islands |
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This page was last
updated December 30, 2011 |
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Aerangis biloba Warm growing African species requires high humidity when growing mounted. These plants are near blooming size and mounted for $25 or in 4 inch basket, $25. Check your choice and click on "Add to Shopping Cart". |
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Aerangis clavigera (synonym macrocentra) This miniature, temperature tolerant epiphyte is endemic to eastern coastal and central Madagascar. These are young seedlings in two inch pots, $25, or mounted for $25. Check the size and click on "Add to Cart". |
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Aerangis citrata 'Ching Hua' x self Delicate ivory to creamy yellow, citrus scented flowers on relatively long spike. Grow them warm and shady. This is a selfing of a very fine clone. Blooming size, mounted, $25. |
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Aerangis
fastuosa This dwarf, twig epiphyte is found in Madagascar. This species is hot growing, The flowers which occur in the late winter and spring are large, long lasting and fragrant at night. Plants are mounted and $25. |
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Aerangis (fastuosa x articulata) Both parents are pictured on the left. The flowers are fragrant. Blooming size plant in 2 inch pot, $20. |
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Aerangis (fastuosa x
citrata) These offspring will be white with a long spur. Plants are blooming size and mounted, $25. Both parents are pictured on the left. |
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Aerangis
mystacidii x self This minature, epiphytic species is found in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia along streams on small twigs overhanging water. Flowers occur in the summer and fall and do best mounted on cork with cool to hot temperatures, moderate shade, high humidity in the growing season and a cooler drier rest. These plants are mounted and $25. |
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Aerangis pumilo (synonym Aerangis
hyaloides) Another miniature, temperature tolerant epiphyte found in Madagascar in shady locations. the , inflorescence can carry from 6 to 20 glistening white flowers. These plants are blooming size in 1 inch pots, $35. Out of Stock 09/14/10 |
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Aerangis
rhodosticta var. luteo-alba From Madagascar, grow shady and intermediate to warm. Miniature plant with disproportionately long inflorescence of pure white flowers with bright orange nose. Blooming size plants in 2 inch clay pots or mounted, $25. Check your selection and click "Add to Cart". |
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Aerangis stylosa This warm growing, small to medium sized epiphyte is found in Madagascar and Comoros in moist evergreen forests. Blooms in the early spring and summer with 9 to 15 flowers that are fragrant at night. The plants are mounted, and $35. |
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Amesiella monticola A relatively newly described, miniature, monopodial epiphyte. Found in the Philippines on the edges of rainforests [Central Luzon Mountains] It is temperature tolerant species and can be grown cool to warm, evenly moist. It may be grown better at cooler conditions with good air movement. Mounted, $25. |
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distichum Widely distributed in Central African on large trees in rain forests as a miniature, hot and humid growing, Lockhartia-like epiphyte. The solitary flowered inflorescence with a long-lived, small, fragrant flower occuring at any time of the year on new leaves and most often more than one. These are slow growing, but prefer low light, high humidity, and warm temperatures. |
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Angraecum didieri A miniature, temperature tolerant misc aecoid from Madagascar, that likes a humid environment. It flowers between April and June in the northern hemisphere on a short inflorescence that carries a solitary fragrant flower. In 3 inch pot, $25. |
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Angraecum
eburneum var. brevicalcar This plant is from Madagascar and is the short-nectary form of Angraecum eburneum. This a highly desirable form of eburneum that is more compact-but not a miniature. This plant produces a multitude of fragrant flowers closely spaced on the spike. Near blooming size plant in 7 inch pot, $50. |
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Angraecum superbum
(syn. Angraecum
eburneum var. superbum) A warm growing epiphyte found in hot damp tropical woods on the east side of Madagascar, eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands. Grow under Cattleya conditions. Blooms in the winter with flowers that are white/green, long-lasting, waxy, fragrant at night. In 5 1/2 inch pots, $35. |
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Angraecum Longiscott 'OC' (superbum x
scottianum) Flowers are large and very showy. Blooming size plants in 5.0 inch pots, $30; in 6 inch pot $35. Check the size and click on "Add to Cart". |
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Angraecum magdalenae Angraecum magdalenae is a semi-terrestrial orchid living in humus pockets on rocky outcrops on Madagascar's central pleateau. Its large long lasting, pure white flowers are fragrant in the eventing to attract pollinating moths. It has been collected almost to extinction from many areas. Near blooming size plant in 3.5 inch pot, with a leaf span of 8 inches, $25 near blooming size in 5 inch pot, 30.00. Check the size and click on "Add to Cart". |
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Angraecum sesquipidale This is a large, warm growing species epiphyte, from Madagascar that produces up to 6 fragrant blooms at Christmas time. Requires water and fertilizer all year round with good air circulation. This is the species that Charles Darwin's predicted would have a pollinator with some structure that could reach to the bottom of the flower's extremely long spur. His prediction was verified with the discovery of a long-tongued hawk moth. These plants are blooming size in 4 inch pots, $30. |
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Eurychone rothschildianum x sib This miniature, temperature tolerant epiphyte is found in Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Gabon, Zaire and Uganda in shady, moist, evergreen rainforests. Blooming with few to several [1 to 7] flowers on the inflorescence. Needs high humidity, deep shade and regular watering year round as well as being mounted on cork or tree fern to accommodate the pendant inflorescence. These plants blooming size and are mounted and $25. |
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Jumellea comorense A temperature tolerant, miniature species is found on the island of Grand Comore. It is a monopodial epiphytic, found growing on rough barked trees in very wet forests with good air movement and moderate light. This species is branched and pendant, and produces fragrant flowers on an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence that can flower at most any time of the year but occurs most often in the winter. Plants are near blooming size in 4 inch pots or baskets, or mounted, $25. Make your selection and click "Add to Cart". |