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Vanilla insignis

Botanic Family
Orchidaceae
Author
Ames
Propagation
C.

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Geographical Habitats

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Hemi-epiphytic climber to 30m. Coriaceous leaves to 195mm x 40mm. Axillary 6-21 flowered racemes to 110mm long with fleshy bracts 10mm x 10mm. Weakly fragrant, spicy pale green to white flowers, yellow inside, with orange-yellow appendages, lateral fleshy sepals greenish to 76.5mm x 14mm, dorsal sepals similar, green petals to 74mm x 10mm with 3-lobed white fringed lip to 73mm x 35mm, lobes to 15mm x 15mm, yellow column 50mm long. Fragrant capsule 140mm x 17.5mm.

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