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 Angraecum scottianum - Photo © Peter M.C. Werner |
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This small, hot growing epiphyte with subcylydrical to terete leaves is the only Angraecum endemic to the Comoros Islands. It is found at an altitude of 350-600 meters in open exposed areas on the lower branches facing westwards. It has erect or pendant, elongated, cylindrical stems with 6 to 8, subcylindrical or terete, subulate, bicarinate, canaliculate leaves that blooms in the spring, summer and early fall on a 10 cm (4") long, axillary, slender, mostly ascending raceme with scarious bracts and fragrant, inverted, waxy, sucessively opening flowers with only one open at a time. They like hot temperature, bright light, steady water and fertilizer, in summer frequent showers and can be tree fern plaque mounted or in small wood slat baskets. It is a miniature plant which bears white flowers with a long creamy
yellow spur to 20 cm. Flowers are borne mostly singly but sometimes
a few form successively. |
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