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Foxtail Orchid
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Foxtail Orchid
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Common name: Foxtail Orchid, Blunt Rhynchostylis • Assamese: কপৌ-ফুল Kopou Phool • Bengali: কপৌ ফুল Kopou Phool • Coorgi: ಸೀತಾ ದಂಡೆ Sita-Dande • Gujarati: સીતાની વેણી Sitani Veni • Hindi: द्रौपदी माला Draupadi Mala • Kannada: ದ್ರೌಪದಿ ಮಾಲೆ Draupadi Maale, ಸೀತಾ ದಂಡೆ Seetha Dande • Konkani: पणस केळी Panas Keli • Malayalam: അണ്ണാൻ താളി Annaan Thaali, അണ്ണാൻ വാലൻ Annaan Vaalan, ആഞ്ഞിലി മരവാഴ Anjili Maravaazha, ബിട്ടി മരം മരവാഴ Bitti Maram Maravaazha, ദ്രൌപദി മാല Draupadi Maala, സീതമുടി Seethamudi• Manipuri: ꯁꯝꯖꯤꯔꯩ সমজীৰৈ Samjirei • Marathi: गजरा Gajara, पणस केळी Panas Keli, सीतेची वेणी Seetechi Veni • Nepali: घोडे गाभा Ghode Gaabhaa, थुर Thur • Nyishi: Olom • Odia: ପୁମମ୍ Pumam • Pahari: भांगरु Bhangru • Tamil: துரோபதை மாலை Dropathai Maalai • Telugu: చింతరణం Chintaranam • Tulu: ಓಪತಿಮಾಲೆ Opathimaale Source: Names of Plants in India
Botanical name: Rhynchostylis retusa    Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
This is a medium sized, warm to hot growing species that comes from Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and India. It is found in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests woodlands at elevations of sealevel to 700 m with stout, repent, short stem carrying to 12, curved, fleshy, deeply channeled, keeld, retuse apically leaves and blooms on an axillary, pendant, to 60 cm long, racemose, densely many flowered, cylyndrical inflorescence that occurs in the winter and early spring and requires even water and fertilizer year round.
Identification credit: Pankaj Kumar Photographed in Maram, Manipur & Maharashtra.
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