Oeonia rosea Ridl. 1885 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Plant and Flower Photo courtesy of Ben Berliner and Willow Pond Orchids

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Common Name The Pink Oeonia

Flower Size 1" + [2.5 cm]

A Madagascan, small sized, hot to cool growing, monopodial epiphytic species on branches in moss forests from altitudes of 100 to 2000 meters with a pendant to climbing, occassionally branching, thin stems carrying many distant, oval-oblong to elliptical, basally clasping, rounded and subcordate apically leaves that blooms on an erect, racemose, 5" [12.5 cm] long, several [3 to 7] flowered inflorescence that is longer than the leaves arising in the spring. Best grown in baskets while given high humidity, low light and ample water while growing and a lessening when mature.

Synonyms Aeonia rosea Ridl. 1885; Oeonia forsysthiana Kraenzl. 1900; Oeonia oncidiiflora Kraenzl 1893

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006

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