Pleione aurita P.J. Cribb & H. Pfennig 1988 SECTION Pleione
Photos by © David Llewelyn and the Kool Plants.co.uk Website
Photo by © Takato Natsui and His Professor Summer's Webgarden
Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Anna S. Chai
Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor
Common Name The Golden Pleione - In China Yan Hua Du Suan Lan [refers tothe golden calli of the lip]
Flower Size 2 1/2 to 3"
Found in Yunnan Province, China on west facing slopes in rhodedendron forests at elevations around 2700 meters as a small, cold growing, deciduous, terrestial species that has conical, angular pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical erect, acute, narrowly-elliptic, deciduous leaf that gives rise to an erect, 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, slender, single flowered inflorescence arising on a new growth and having elliptic-oblanceolate, acute floral bracts, all appearing after all the leaves have fallen off the psuedobulbs and occuring in the spring. Needing a definite dry winter rest, start after the leaves begin to yellow, then refrain from fertilizer till after blooming.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 4 1998 photo as P chuni; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #10 2015 photo fide;
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