Coelogyne trinervis Lindl.
Description: Found in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Mollucas and Sumatra as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte on trees or rocks at low to moderate elevations of 100 to 1600 meters with ovoid, closely set, longitudinally 4 grooved, oblique pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a few sheaths and carrying 2, apical, plicate, 3 nerved, acute, gradually narrrowing below into the elongate, grooved, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, slender, very slightly fractiflex rachis, few to several [4 to 8] flowered inflorescence arising with a new growth with deciduous floral bracts and has fragrant [some say unpleasant others say light and airy], simultaneously opening flowers
Photorights: Cedric Jancloes
- Size: Flower Size 1 3/4" [4 cm] The bulbs are about 4-5 inches long and leaves are about 15-16 inches long. It is a rather big plant.
- Collector/Witnesses: Cedric Jancloes (CJ066), Sok vichea (2014)
- Year Collected: 2011
- Growing Media: pot/wood
- Flowering Period: november
- Color: Creamy white, sepals and petals, lip cream colored with brown lines on midlobe, sightlobes brown inside and outside
- Water: Water regularly during the summer, about once every two days and gradually reduce in the winter. Water about once every two to three weeks and gradually increase watering as new roots begin to show.
- Light: partial shade
- Temperature: 12-25°C