!Neofinetia falcata [Thunb.]H.H. Hu 1925 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name In Japan - Fu Ran, The Wind Orchid

Flower Size 1 1/4" [3 cm]

From Japan, Korea and the Ryukyu Islands, it is a warm to cool grower, found in areas that have shady summers, and because of the deciduous trees that they grow on, almost full sun in the winter, with a short, monoposial, complanate stem enveloped basally by conduplicate leaf bases carrying coriaceous, distichous, fleshy, conduplicate, linear-falcate leaves that blooms on a racemose, axillary, to 2/3/4" [7 cm] long, laxly several flowered inflorescence that appears in early summer through fall with nocturnal, fragrant flowers. Best mounted on tree fern or cork here in warm conditions yet it can be done in suspended pots with a very coarse mixture to allow air to get to the roots. The plant is a small, monopodial, vandanaceous plant that is under 5" tall.

Synonyms Aerides thunbergii Miq. 1866; Angorchis falcata (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Angraecopsis falcata (Lindl.) Schltr. 1914; Angraecum falcatum [Thunb.]Lindley 1821; Finetia falcata [Thunb.]Schlechter 1817; Holcoglossum falcatum [Thunb.]Garay 1972; Limodorum falcatum Sw 1799; Nipponorchis falcata [Thunb.]Masamune 1934; Oeceoclades falcata [Thunb.]Lindley 1833; Oeceoclades lindleyi Regel 1866; *Orchis falcata Thunb. 1784; Orchis fuciflora Crantz 1769; Vanda falcata (Thunb.) Beer 1854

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 5 1993 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 4 1994 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 12 1997 photo; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 7 1998 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 7 2002 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 3 2004; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 2 2005 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 5 2005 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 7 2005 photo;

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Flowers Photo by John Wund

Neofinetia falcata var kisuzume plant

Root Tip Photo by John Wund

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Flower Photo by John Wund

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