Showing posts with label angraecum rutenbergianum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label angraecum rutenbergianum. Show all posts

Friday, June 5, 2015

Angraecum rutenbergianum

These flowers look similar to the species I recently posted, Angraecum dideri, but both plant and flowers are much smaller.  Like Angraecum dideri, Angraecum rutenbergianum is from Madagascar and prefers cooler temperatures.  The plant grows to 8 cm and the flowers are almost as large as the plant, 5.5 cm with a 12 cm spur or nectary.  The flowers are fragrant at night.  They are held very close to the plant.  My plant is mounted on a piece of cedar and this is the first time I've bloomed it.  The plant is still quite small, barely beyond the seedling stage.