Product information "Epidendrum henschenii"
| Name: | Epidendrum henschenii, Barb.Rodr. 1882 |
| Synonyms: | Epidendrum brevicolle, Kraenzl. 1921 |
| Etymology: | henschenii = Salomon Eberhard Henschen (February 28, 1847 - December 16, 1930) was a Swedish physician, professor and neurologist. In 1867 - 1869 Henschen worked in Brazil, where he stayed with the Swedish physician and botanist Anders Fredrik Regnell and conducted botanical research in Caldas from 1867 to 1869. |
| Propagation: | seed |
| Origin: | Brazil, Peru, Paraguay |
| Habitat: | epiphytic, occasionally lithophytic, in the Brazilian states of Minas Gerais and Parana at altitudes from 300 to 600 meters |
| Notes: | medium sized, compact growing Epidendrum, which presents up to 5 flowers of about 3cm size on overhanging panicles. It is always the old, unleaved stem that blooms, the new shoot does not. |
