Laelia lueddemannii
Object Details
- Description
- This large orchid is named after a French orchid gardener of the 1800s, Lueddemann.
- Bloom Time (Northern Hemisphere)
- February to May
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Range
- Costa Rica to NW Venezuela
- Habitat
- Hot to warm growing; 0-1969ft (0-600m)
- Topic
- Orchids
- Living Collections
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- Smithsonian Gardens Orchid Collection
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Accession Number
- 2015-1600B
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Common Name
- Lueddeman's Laelia
- Lueddeman's Schomburgkia
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Magnoliidae
- Superorder
- Lilianae
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Subfamily
- Epidendroideae
- Genus
- Laelia
- Species
- lueddemannii
- Life Form
- Epiphytic
- Bloom Characteristics
- Inflorescences can reach 3 feet (1 meter) long, and can have many pink and purple flowered. Margins of petals and sepals undulate.
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2015-1600B