Coelogyne tomentosa
Submitted by wellsy on Sun, 27/04/2008 - 20:26
Coelogyne tomentosa Lindl., Fol. Orchid. 5: 3 (1854).
Synonyms: Coelogyne massangeana Rchb.f., Gard. Chron., n.s., 1878(2): 684 (1878).
Pleione massangeana (Rchb.f.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 680 (1891).
Distribution: Thailand, Java, Malaysia, Sumatra
Coelogyne tomentosa is an impressive cool to intermediate growing species found from Malaysia and Indonesia. It produces attractive, long, pendulous spikes of buff coloured flowers spasmodiacally from summer to autumn. This species was previously very well known in cultivation as Coelogyne massangeana (named by Reichenbach in 1978) however recent studies have shown the two are conspecific and thus Coelogyne tomentosa, named in 1854, takes priority.
temperature
What do you mean with cool to intermediate?Cool at night or cool at day and night?
Grt.
Marie
Temperature
What Wellsy meant was that this plant will grow cool as in cool nights and days (5C at night to 15C during daytime) to intermediate conditions (12C night to 22C daytime) during winter.
temperature
Thanks for the answer,I was confused.