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Pleione Orchid
£2.75per packet
Buy 2, get a 3rd free
One of the most beautiful, frost-hardy terrestrial and xerophytic (grows on tree branches ) orchids in the world. Very large pink and mauve, or sometimes pure white flowers, arise from plump pseudobulbs in earliest spring, the lanceolate leaves appearing later. Fresh seed collected here each year.
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Height
- 8 cm - 10 cm
- Light level
- Partial shade
- Growth habit
- Bulb corm or rhizome
- Hardiness rating
- H3
- Pollinator-friendly
- Yes
- Moisture
- Moisture retentive
- Region of origin
- Himalayas
- Colour
- White
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