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Fruit is produced only on mature plants. This takes 2-3 years for meter long cuttings and 3-4 years for 12 in cuttings or tissue cultures. The fruits are 15–23 cm (6–9 in) long pods (often incorrectly called beans). Outwardly they resemble small bananas. They mature after about eight to nine months. [8]
All representatives of the Cypripedioideae are perennial, herbaceous plants. The fleshy roots sometimes possess a veil. The leaves are arranged spirally or in two rows, the shoot is slender or compressed. In the bud, the leaves are rolled and the leaf blade is plikat (folded) or the leaves are folded in the bud, smooth and leathery.
The English name 'common spotted' refers to the species' abundance and the spots on its leaves. The French and German common names also honour Leonhart Fuchs. This plant belongs to a problematic group of orchids. D. maculata subsp. fuchsii is very variable in flower colour and flower morphology, plant height and the scent of flowers.
This orchid was first described by Carl Borivoj Presl in 1826. [2] Presl mentions that the fruits collected 36 years earlier were still fragrant when he examined them. [3] [6] The original scientific description was only from the fruits, according to Oakes Ames, and that a more detailed description of the plant and leaves was only written in 1895 by R. Allen Rolfe in his monograph on the genus ...
Lycaste flowers, like all orchid blooms, have three petals and three sepals. The petals are typically yellow, white, or orange, and the sepals are yellow, orange, green, or reddish brown. The petals and sepals may be marked sparsely or densely with red, reddish purple, purple, or reddish brown spots.
The fragrant, orchid-like flowers are usually 10 to 15 centimetres (3.9 to 5.9 in) across, and bloom from early November to the end of March. Although now cultivated in many areas, it originated in Hong Kong in 1880 and apparently all of the cultivated trees derive from one cultivated at the Hong Kong Botanical Gardens and widely planted in ...
Why Orchid Blooms Fall Off Too Soon. Orchid blooms drop off eventually from natural causes, of course, but if the flowers are falling off prematurely, there may be a problem. 1. Sudden Temperature ...
The orchid genus Dracula, abbreviated as Drac in horticultural trade, consists of 118 species native to Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. [1] The name Dracula literally means "little dragon", an allusion to the mythical Count Dracula, a lead character in numerous vampire novels and films.