Phalaenopsis Schilleriana

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.