| Fragrant Fox Brush Orchid |
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| File size | 520757 |
| Original date | 8/21/17 3:07 PM |
| Resolution | 2032 x 1524 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 100.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/250s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 7D |
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Botanical name: Aerides odorata Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Synonyms: Aerides flavida, Aerides nobilis, Aerides cornuta
Synonyms: Aerides flavida, Aerides nobilis, Aerides cornuta
Fragrant Fox Brush Orchid is a large to giant sized,
highly variable, hot to cool growing, tree dwelling orchid, with very
stout, drooping, branching stems. The plants carry fleshy, incurved,
oblong-ligulate, broad, pale green leaves, round lobed at the tip. It
is highly fragrant and blooms on up to 3, sharply pendant, to 60 cm
long, many [up to 30] flowered, cylindric inflorescence that arise out
of the leaf axils. As developing can be very sticky and giving rise to
many, waxy, very fragrant flowers. Fragrant Fox Brush Orchid is found
in Himalayas, Western Ghats, Andaman Islands, and SE Asia, in
broadleaf, evergreen, lowland forests at elevations of 200-2000 m.
| Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad | Photographed in Ooty Botanical Gardens, distt., the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu. |
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