Angraecum eburneum

[smweaver]

Four spikes on this plant, each one about three feet long. There's a total of fifty-two flowers and five buds. Extremely fragrant at night, but no scent at all during the day. Easy to grow if you've got the space for it.

Steve

[khill]

Beautiful! I think this plant is so elegant.

I purchased it a few months ago. It hasn't thrown a flower spike yet, although it is suppose to be blooming size. I'm hoping to get some blooms this year.

Can you post a picture of the entire plant please?

[smweaver]

Here's the plant. Not a great picture, but it's hard to get the whole thing in the shot. While I agree that the flowers are very elegant, you might reconsider that estimation of the plant itself after it gets to be a full-blown adult. This one was cut from the mother plant last spring, and it's already growing into a monster. The lower leaves from the first foot of stem are gone, and the plant is starting to twist and turn, kind of like a vine (even though I know it's not really a vine). The leaf span is just over three feet across, and the green part of the plant (not including the foot of bare stem that's anchoring the whole thing into the large ceramic pot I transplanted it into last April) is close to two feet tall. It's very easy to grow, and it seems to have really appreciated the hot and humid Midwest summer before I brought it back into the house at the end of September. Might actually make a decent landscaping plant for you if you're in a part of Florida that doesn't experience temperature drops below the lower to mid 50's.

[esungirl]

It looks very happy, what a nice display.

[Lagoon]

Holy momma!! WOW wonderful blossoms.
Gee Steve, if your disappointed with the no scent during the day .. I'll take it off you

Good growing

[cb977]

That's amazing!

Time to head out with your sleeping bag for a while

[Barbara]

What a wonderful display! Wish I could squeeze one into my collection.

[Grandma M]

Beautiful. You must have a greenhouse to be able to grow such a large plant.

[Neverend]

Gorgeous! I'm completely envious!

[smweaver]

Thank you, everyone, for your nice comments. No greenhouse yet, but I'm having a conservatory built onto the house that I'm breaking ground on next month. So the plant will be spending its life out there starting next spring. I think that if you could put it outside for the summer and then place it in front of a large south-facing window during the winter, you probably wouldn't need a greenhouse--at least while the plant's still fairly "small." I wish I lived in the tropics or sub-tropics where it would be much easier to leave the plant outside all year. It was something of a workout to lift it and carry it back into the house a couple of months ago. And I vowed last spring that I would never attempt to repot it again, at least not without the assistance of a machete.