Angraecum leonis [Rchb.f]Veitch 1891 SECTION Humblotiangraecum Photos courtesy of Oak Hill Gardens and Their Website
Photos courtesy of Igor Zhuravlev
Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Shawn Bird
Common Name or Meaning Leon's Angraecum [Leon Humblot - French Orchid Collector in Madagascar and the Comoros Islands 1800's]
Flower Size 3" long 2 to 3" in Diameter [7.5 x 5 to 7.5 cm]
Found in the Comoros Islands as a medium sized, hot growing fan-shaped epiphyte at an altitude of 200 to 1200 meters on the island of Madagascar with a short, stout stem with 4 to 5, distichous, narrowly ensiform, spreading, falcate, flattened, fleshy-coriaceous leaves that blooms in the winter on 1 to 2, axillary, racemes that have an erect or suberect, stout, bracteate, shorter inflorescence arising from the second or third leaf base, with 1 to 7, fragrant, long-lasting flowers. I grow mine in a wood slat basket with fenrock as a medium, and with bright semi direct light, frequent spring-summer waterings and a drier winter.
Synonyms *Aeranthes leonis Rchb.f 1885; Aeranthus leonis Rchb.f; Angraecum humblotii Rchb.f 1885; Angraecum leonii [Rchb.f]Andre` 1885; Macroplectrum humblotii Finet 1907; Macroplectrum leonis [Rchb.f] Finet 1907; *Mystacidium leonis Rolfe 1904
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glen 2004; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchds Pridgeon 1992; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Miniature Orchids Northern 1988; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1981; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006
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