Vanilla edwallii Hoehne 1941
Side View of Flower Photo by © Luis Filipe Varella
Plant and Seed Pods Photo courtesy of Alejandro Taborda ©
Plant Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl ©
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Common Name or Meaning Edwall's Vanilla [Swedish Orchid Collector in Sao Paulo Brazil 1900's]
Flower Size
Found in Sao Paulo State Brazil as well as northern Argentina at elevations around 150 to 400 meters in dwarf scrub forest as a medium to giant sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with an ascending stem with the basal portion in the ground with leaf detrius and carrying coriaceous, thin, pendent, dark yellowish green leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an axillary, 6" [15 cm] long, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing ok; 100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo fide;
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