Zygopetalum intermedium
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Quite similar to Zygopetalum mackayi Petals and sepals are fleshy. Heavily dappled with dark maroon-purple. Fan-shaped labellum. Labellum white with dark lilac streaking. Up to 6 blooms. Blooms are 3in (8cm) wide. Blooms on thick upright spikes.
Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Zygopetalum intermedium, Lodd. Lvs. ensiform, 1 1/2 ft. long, 1 1/2 in. wide: scape longer than the lvs., bearing 5-6 fls. each nearly 3 in. across: sepals and petals oblong, acute, green with large, confluent blotches of brown: labellum rotund, narrowed at the base, deeply 2-lobed in front, pubescent, bluish white with radiating broken lines of purplish blue; column green and white. Fls. in winter. Brazil.— Plants of Z. Mackaii are often cult. under this name.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
- Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381
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