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This is a medium sized, cool to hot growing terrestrial or lithophytic species from the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam that is found in broadleaf, evergreen, lowland forests and primary montane forests as well as on mossy limestone rocks at elevations of 200 to 2000 meters with erect, clustered, compressed, grooved with age, yellowish stems carrying distichous, coriaceopus, strap shaped or oblong, persistent leaves that blooms mostly in the winter and spring but is possible throughout the year on short, 2 to 4 flowered racemes with fragrant honey to musk by day and mown hay at night scented, waxy, heavy-textured, long-lived, highly variable [mostly color] flowers that arise at the upper nodes of leafed and leafless canes.
They need a decided winter rest from fertilizer and water to ensure a good bloom season and the yellowing of the leaves in the fall is the sign to begin. This species can keiki form the older canes."
specie terrestre o litofica, muschio e rocce dai 200 ai 2000 mt clima temperato/caldo che se lo sposti a 2000 diventa mediofresco in inverno
necessita di nette sospensioni invernali di annaffiature e concimazioni per indurre la fioritura, 'ingiallimento delle foglie indica l'inizio del periodo di sospensioni
poi si tratta di piante ibridate ma il punto di partenza è questo
