NOID Angulocaste

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I acquired this plant many years ago when I first started to grow orchids, and I'm sure that it once had an identification tag with it. But I made the unpardonable mistake of misplacing the tag. So now it's simply an unidentified Angulocaste. I do wish that I knew what's in its background. It's a very easy to grow plant, handling hot, humid and wet summers and cool winters equally well (and, perhaps most impressively, it thrived in spite of a terrible amount of abuse from my amateur hands).

It usually blooms in the mid summer with large, long-lasting flowers that are strongly fragrant of vanilla and mint. Growths with huge leaves (close to three feet long by ten to twelve inches wide) mature over the winter, and the plant then (thankfully) sheds its leaves around March. It then enters a dormant state for a few months. Spikes and new growths begin to show around mid to late June.

Steve
NOID Angulocaste on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
NOID Angulocaste on Flickr - Photo Sharing!