fredg
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Post by fredg on Mar 14, 2013 7:58:00 GMT -5
Stenoglottis longifolia is a cool growing terrestrial or lithophyte from Natal and Zululand, South Africa. It grows in humus or on mossy rocks and rock outcroppings at elevations of 300 to 1300 metres [1000 - 4300ft]. It has numerous oblanceolate or narrowly oblong, acute, light green leaves that have undulate margins in a basal rosette and it blooms in the autumn on an erect, terminal, 35cm [14"] long, racemose, many flowered inflorescence that has a few scattered sheaths along the scape. Growing temperatures cool to cold. Having said all that, it's a little beauty. The flowers are small but wonderfully marked. Compost is the familiar well drained but moisture retentive type. Watering generously in growth and less so in winter.
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