Phalaenopsis Schilleriana
$28.00 – $65.00
Phalaenopsis Schilleriana
Found on Luzon and other smaller surrounding islands of The Philippine archipelago in rainforests, high up on the trees, at elevations of sea level to 450 meters as a large sized, hot growing epiphytic plant with stout, short stems enveloped by imbricate leaf bases carrying fleshy, elliptic, oblong-elliptic, to oblanceolate, obtuse, dark green mottled silver grey leaves, that blooms in the spring on a branching, arching to pendant, to more than 3′ [90 cm] long, few to many [3 to 250] flowered inflorescence with small ovate-cucullate bracts carrying showy, delicate, rose petal scented flowers that can be quite stunning.
This orchid like shade, good humidity and even watering year-round and needs a mount instead of a pot to accommodate the pendent inflorescence.