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Copyright: Raimundo Mesquita (mesquens)
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| Genre: Plants |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-08-17 |
| Categories: Flowers |
| Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC LZ7 |
| Exposure: f/2.8, 1/50 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-08-17 15:01 |
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| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Portuguese] |
Large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial native of Florida, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina in arid areas at elevations of 20 to 1200 meters with clustered, erect, fusiform elongate, many noded pseudobulbs enveloped by grey white sheaths when young and carrying linear to elliptic-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, distichous, spreading or recurved, elongate at the subpetiolate base, plicate leaves that blooms in late spring on a basal, branching, heavily bracteate, up to 5' [to 150 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence arising with a new growth, commonly called the cigar orchid because of it's psuedobulb's shape, it has deciduous leaves that it loses in the fall ,and thus should have less water in the winter, than when it is growing. The inflorecense appears just after the new lead for a psuedobulb begins to appear. This species is a warm to hot growing epiphyte or sometimes terrestrial found on dead or living trees, logs and stumps or in soil between rocks or on boulders at altitudes up to 1400 meters. A paste similar to Mucilage is made for bookbinding by extracting the juices from the psudobulbs.
Synonyms Cymbidium trinerve G.Mey. 1818; Cyrtopodium bracteanum Linden ex Lindl. 1846; Cyrtopodium macrobulbum (Lex.) G.A.Romero & Carnevali 1999; Cyrtopodium macrobulbum f. salvadorense (Hamer & Garay) G.A.Romero & Carnevali 1999; Cyrtopodium punctatum var. salvadorense Hamer & Garay in F.Hamer 1981; Cyrtopodium saintlegerianum Rchb. f. 1885; Cyrtopodium saint-legerianum hort. 1888; Cyrtopodium speciosissimum Planch. 1877; Cyrtopodium tigrinum Linden 1881; Cyrtopodium willmorei Knowles & Westc. 1837; Epidendrum macrobulbon Lex. 1825; Epidendrum mayzifolium Lindl. 1853; *Epidendrum punctatum L. 1760
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