Epipogium Roseum Orchid

Epipogium Roseum Orchid

This is a very delicate, beautifully colored terrestrial orchid. It is saprophytic in nature and grows on the forest floor on decaying leaf litter. It is unique by not having any leaves at all. It grows in semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests. The flowering season starts in winter and flowers are seen till January. It is very difficult to locate on the forest floor.
Rosy Ghost Epipogium is a medium in size. A plant is grown in hot to cool place or a plant is warm growing. The plant is erect, leafless, terrestrial orchid with an ovoid, horizontal tuber giving rise to an erect. The height of the plant is 2 feet and hollow, fleshy stem. The stem is basally brownish and becoming nearly white towards the top and carrying a few distant bracts. The plant blooms on an erect, up to 80 cm long, many flowered inflorescences arising in the spring and summer. The plant blooms only for 8 days.


Flowers are pure white cupped and looking towards the downward direction. The flowers are about 1 cm long. The sepals and petals are elongate and look similar to each other. The lip is broader and a little frilled, but remains mostly cupped and inconspicuous. It has a few rosy speckles on it. The flower stem and the ovaries of the flower have a slight yellow-brown color, but the overall impression is of a totally white plant. Pods form rapidly after the flowers have opened. Being a saprophytic plant it bears no leaves and has no noticeable green color. Rose Epipogium is found in Africa, Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, South India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, SE Asia, Japan, Taiwan, and Australia.

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