Ipsea
Habit | orchid
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Lifespan: | ⌛ | perennial |
Bloom: | ❀ | early winter, mid winter, late winter |
Exposure: | ☼ | part-sun |
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Water: | ◍ | moderate |
Features: | ✓ | flowers |
Flower features: | ❀ | yellow |
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Ipsea is a genus of the Orchid family (Orchidaceae), endemic to India, Sri Lanka and North America.
Read about Ipsea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Ipsea (fancied resemblance to ips, a cynip insect or a worm). Orchidaceae. Two or 3 terrestrial E. Indian pseudobulbous orchids, allied to Pachystoma, with which it has been united: lvs. long, narrow and plicate: scape sheathed; fls. few, large, highly colored. I. speciosa, Lindl. (Pachystoma speciosum, Reichb.). Deciduous, tuberous-rooted, with erect scapes to 18 in. high: lvs. 5-8, long-petioled, 6-10 in. long: fls. several, bright yellow, fragrant, 2-3 in. diam., the lip oblong, with side lobes triangular and middle lobe obovate: pseudobulbs tufted. Ceylon.—Blooms in winter. To be potted in fibrous loam, peat and leaf-mold, and rested alter growth.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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- w:Ipsea. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
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