Aerides crassifolia Parish & Rchb.f 1874 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery

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Common Name or Meaning The Thick-Leafed Aerides - In Thailand - Kulak daeng

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

A small to medium sized, cool to hot growing, monopodial epiphyte from pennisular Myanamar, Laos, Vietnam and NE Thailand in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests at elevations of sealevel to 1300 meters with a erect stem carrying oblong-ligulate, rigid, thick, olive green leaves that are bilobed apically that blooms in spring and summer with up to 50 fragrant, long-lived flowers on an arching to pendant, 5 to 12" [12.5 to 30 cm] long raceme. This plant requires wood slat basket culture and a drier winter rest.

Synonyms Aerides expansa Rchb.f 1882

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Minaiature Orchids McQueen 1992; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 6 1993 photo; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora's Orchids Nash and La Croix 2005; A Field Guide to the Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Botanica's Orchids Laurel Glenn 2002

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