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Orchids: Habenaria rhodocheila, 1 by MaypopLaurel

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Subject: Habenaria rhodocheila

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Photo of Habenaria rhodocheila
MaypopLaurel wrote:
Habenaria rhodocheila is a terrestrial species with many orange to red color forms. This one is a neon coral. The flowers are spurred. It spends much of the year in the greenhouse as a dormant corm stored under a bench. The plant puts out new growth in November. I begin water and fertilizer and continue until after bloom when the leaves start to yellow. Then I cease fertilizer and gradually slow water \'til it\'s asleep again.

Unfortunately the DG title automatically capitalizes the species name which is incorrect nomenclature.