Vanilla barbellata Rchb.f 1865 Photo courtesy of Mark Nir and Orchidaceae Antillannae

Florida Keys Type

Roots attached to tree

Growing Tip

Plant Base and Host Tree Photos by Jay Pfahl

Inflorescence ensitu Florida Keys

Plant and flowers ensitu Florida Keys Photos courtesy of Alison Higgins-Land Stewardship Coordinator-The Nature Conservancy of the Florida Keys

Flower and Plant En situ Big Pine Key Photo courtesy of Yvonne Kostic

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Common Name Link-Vine; Worm-Vine; Snake Orchid; Leafless Vanilla - The Small Bearded Vanilla

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Cuba, South Florida, the Bahamas, and elsewhere in the Caribbean as a hot to warm growing epiphyte with terete, branching, succulent stems carrying, lanceolate, short-lived leaves that blooms on a short, axillary, racemose, several [12] flowered inflorescence with fleshy, fragrant, short-lived, successive opening flowers occuring in the spring and summer.

Synonyms Vanilla articulata Northrop. 1902

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000

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