Description
Epidendrum radicans. It is a large sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial or lithophyte, which sometimes reaching even 3 m, with erect to nutant canes with adventitious roots, and carrying ovate to elliptic, an unequally bilobed apex, coriaceous, 8-10 cm long leaves that are evenly distributed along the branching stem. The Ground Rooting Epidendrum blooms the most between fall and spring on a terminal, erect, 25 to 50 cm long, umbelliform inflorescence with successive opening, resupinate flowers all clustered in a ball at the apex. The flowers are 3.5 cm in diameter. They are extremely variable in colors, from orange, red, yellow, crimson, cinnabar, orange and red. Locality: Ex Hort. Harvest: September 2023
