Encyclia fragrans

Collected in Jamaica in the cooler west central mountains where it blooms in summer on an apical, erect, short to 5" [to 10 cm], few to several [3 to 10] flowered, racemose, shorter than the leaves inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb subtended by a large basal bract and is quite fragrant [honey and Vanilla]. They also are found from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leewards, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil in lowland tropical rainforests to lower montane forests up to 2000 meters in altitude as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with cylindric to fusiform, narrowly ovoid pseudobulbs with basal bracts that become papery with age and a single, coriaceous, ligulate oblong to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse leaf which blooms mostly in the winter and spring, but is possible in all seasons with a well grown plant.

It grows best mounted on wood with cool to warm temperatures and is medium in size.

The major difference here between A fragrans and A aemulum is that A aemulum blooms on a newly maturing, ovoid [not tapered] pseudobulb.

This species is often confused with A chacoense which has 2 apical leaves

www.orchidspecies.com/anafragrans.htm

Purchased from Andy's Orchids about a month ago and is rewarding me with perfumey blooms.

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