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Prosthechea aemula
Delicate white flowers with some stripes on the centre leaf. They form a pointy bud first which then opens into this lovely little flower. The flowers grow in clusters and have a delicious strong honey scent. They are about 3-4cm. The flowers form on top of a bulblike part of the leave epiphyte with pyriform pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, leaf and blooms in the fall and winter on a few flowered inflorescence arising on a still maturing pseudobulb with non-resupinate, fragrant flowers.
In our garden. Los Pallos Grande, Chacao, Altamira, Caracas, Venezuela. Near Cerro del Avila.
I believe they were put there by our landlady but I am not sure. They have a fantastically overwhelming almost honey smell. Weird that there are hardly any bees or other feeders on them.
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