Rhynchostylis coelestis (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. ex Veitch

Description:  Found in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of sealevel 350 - 1200 meters as a small sized, cool to hot growing monopodial epiphyte with a stem carrying several, strap-like, fleshy, alternate leaves that blooms on an axillary, erect to arcuate, densely many flowered, racemose inflorescence with waxy, fragrant flowers occuring in the summer and fall.

Photorights: Sok Vichea

• Size:  orchid 20 – 30 cm , inflorescence 17 – 23cm, flowers 1.8 – 2cm,
• Collector/Witnesses:  Sok Vichea
• Year Collected:  2014 (may have been collected earlier but data can not be used)
• Growing Media:  wood
• Flowering Period:  April to December
• Color:  tight sepals and petals are white or pale blue petals the color purple, blue, purple lip.
• Water:  1 – 2 time daily
• Light:  bright light – partial shade
• Temperature:  13 - 32°C