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This is one of the successful Dracula / Masdevallia species from America, widely distributed around.
Orchids
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Our annual visit to the orchid festival. Took a day off to avoid the crowds at the weekend, and it was still busy. Absolutely gorgeous displays though, with lots of new types - especially if you look beyond the show stoppers. Some beautiful colour co-ordination too.
Foxtail Orchid (Rhynchostylis retusa) is an exotic blooming orchid, belonging to Vanda family. The orchid has a bunch consisting of 100 more than pink-spotted white flowers.
The plant is found in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests woodlands at elevations of sea level to 700 m, native to Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India.
They have stout, repent, short stem carrying to 12, curved, fleshy, deeply channeled, keeld, retuse apically leaves and blooms on an axillary, pendant, to 60 cm long, racemose, densely many flowered, cylindrical inflorescence that occurs in the winter and early spring.
The plants prefer moderate waterings, heavy fertilizing, and very bright shade to direct morning light. Flowering is usually summer into fall. Called Chintaranam in Telugu, the plant is most common in North-East, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. Medicinally the plant is used to treat wounds, cuts and bruishes. Due to bio-piracy, the plant is in the verge of extinction in India. Rhychostylis Retusa is recognized as the state flower of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. In Assam, it is popularly known as Kopou Phool, and is an integral part of a Bihu dancer's attire.