This is quite a thrill giving me two spikes of large (5 inches) flowers that gives out such sweet floral fragrance early in the morning.
This got tagged originally as Zygosepalum but as RosieC have informed me about what she found out on her research that it is a Zygolum.
Plants are found from Central to South America, usually in the tropical regions.
Most of the plants in this genus are intermediate to warm growing and require medium lighting. This is almost 15 inches tall; in a six inches diameter pot with sponge rock, bark, charcoal, lava rock and tree fern shards that I do not allow to dry out completely….I keep it moist but not soggy by watering about every three days in the summer and once a week in winter. Weekly weakly fertilizer and in the cold months I lessen fertilizer to every other week and using the lower nitrogen kind. If possible, I don’t wet the leaves and flowers because it has thin sensitive leaves that are susceptible to cold spots that encourage fungi infestation. Always check the back of the leaves for scales or mites.
This genus is named after the sepals which are fused at the base.
To give it an illusion to appear larger, the peloric petals mimic the color and form of the lip.
Zygolum Rhein Moonlight
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