Description: Peristeria Elata (Dove orchid) Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Venzuela in shaded grassland edges and stone outcrops in tropical wet forests at elevations of 100 to 700 meters as a large sized, warm to hot growing terrestrial or lithophytic orchid from with clustered, large, ovoid or conical pseudobulbs enveloped basally by imbricate, papery sheaths with the upper 2 being leaf bearing and carrying 3 to 5 apical, plicate, broadly lanceolate to elliptic, acute or acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate short petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a rigidly erect, to 4 1/2' [135 cm] long, basal, successively 4 to 6, 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence carrying campanulate, subglobose, waxy flowers appearing on a new growth and opening as the pseudobulb has matured but before the leaves drop. The flowers open successively over a long period with many, highly citrus scented, waxy, cup-shaped flowers. The plant in offer is adult, in blooming size, we send this plant bareroot.
Price: 35 USD
Location: Utuado, Puerto Rico
End Time: 2024-11-29T15:57:26.000Z
Shipping Cost: 12.85 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Brand: Orchids
Type: Orchids
Climate: Sub-tropical, Tropical
Genus: Peristeria
Common Name: Dove Orchid
Color: White
Indoor/Outdoor: Indoor & Outdoor
