Rhy retusa grows over a very large region, so there are many varieties. I have one that sets 80-100 small flowers very densely packed on the spike. I have seen others that set fewer, but larger, flowers loosely spaced on t he spike.
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Kim (Fair Orchids)
Founder of SPCOP (Society to Prevention of Cruelty to Orchid People), with the goal of barring the taxonomists from tinkering with established genera!
I am neither a 'lumper' nor a 'splitter', but I refuse to re-write millions of labels.
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