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April 19, 2017

Elleanthus sp. ‘Esperanza Mejia’










Natural Spread
0.4
0.4
Dorsal Sepal
0.2
0.6
Petals
0.1
0.8
Lateral Sepals
0.1
0.8
Lip / Pouch
0.6
1.0





Description: Twenty-two, tubular flowers, and 24 buds, sequential from base, with 1.5-cm bracts on eight nodded inflorescences; plant 10-cm wide, 72-cm tall grown in a 13-cm plastic pot with organic matter; leaves lanceolate, heavily plicate, stiff, 1.2-cm wide and 14-cm long; sepals and petals lanceolate, purple; lip white, margins dark fuchsia with two red-purple spots centrally; substance soft; texture crystalline.

20175967 pnw

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