Object Details
- Description
- This medium sized orchid has one of the largest flowers of any stanhopea. Its flowers are short-lived, but strongly fragrant.
- Bloom Time (Northern Hemisphere)
- Year round; peaks in October
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Accession Number
- 2015-1400A
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Life Form
- Epiphytic
- Bloom Characteristics
- Pendant inflorescence is 4" (10 cm) long with 1-2 waxy, short-lived, white flowers. Flowers are 6" (15 cm) across.
- Fragrance
- Wintergreen, jasmine
- Range
- Trinidad to S Tropical America
- Habitat
- Wet forests; 330-3280ft (100-1000m)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian Gardens Orchid Collection
- Common Name
- The Large Flowered Stanhopea
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Magnoliidae
- Superorder
- Lilianae
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Subfamily
- Epidendroideae
- Genus
- Stanhopea
- Species
- grandiflora
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Topic
- Orchids
- Living Collections
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2015-1400A
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ax7e4bb654a-8875-4900-9f3d-83525b10bd59
