It is a monopodial epiphyte with many ...

It is a monopodial epiphyte with many ...

It is a monopodial epiphyte with many close-growing, rounded, slightly flattened pseudobulbs, and it blooms prolifically, with tiny flowers.

The leaves are usually grass-like.

An intermediate house serves.

(Listing and descriptions of species of this genus may be found on page 122.

) Cycnoches is a lovely genus that has been neglected by American growers.

The plants have heavy, woody pseudobulbs.

The graceful foliage is frequently shed in the winter.

In fact, flowering is such a strain on the plant that the old bulb often gives all its strength to the new growth, and then shrivels and dies.

An injudicious use of water is disastrous.

The plant produces large, handsome flowers whose shape has earned for it the graceful name 'swan's neck orchid.

' The flowers are so unusual and beautiful that they are worth any amount of labor involved in encouraging them to bloom.

According to Lindley, C. ventricosum produces male, female, and neuter flowers in the same scape.

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