Angraecum birrimense Rolfe 1914 SECTION Arachnangraecum Schlechter Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

Plant and Flowers Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Birrim Angraecum [A place in Ghana]

Flower Size 5" [12.5 cm]

Found in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cameroon and Zimbabwe in evergreen forests as a lareg to giant sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 50 meters with elongated stems carrying distichous, oblong-lanceolate, unequally and obtusely bilobed, apically leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a one to three flowered inflorescence with large, fragrant flowers. Best grown in a pot with a bark mix and a tree fern pole in the middle to which the elongated [to 6'] stem is tied until the roots form, given shade, humidity and hot to cool temperatures.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 No 10 1970; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006

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