Photo: 27 fevrier 2011
Full light, cool to hot temperature, flower in spring
An eastern Australian, small to medium sized, cool to hot growing,
lithophytic and sometimes epiphytic species found on exposed cliffs at
altitudes up to 1000 meters, near to the sea and is vandanaceous in
form, with numerous, stout, erect stems carrying 6 to 8, thick, fleshy,
oblong-lanceolate, falcate, obliquely emarginate or acute leaves that
blooms on a erect to arcuate, reddish, axillary, 3 to 10" [6 to 25 cm]
long, several to many [up to 25] flowered inflorescence that is longer
than the leaves, occuring in the spring and has non-fragrant flowers.
They can be mounted or grown in a pot with regular water and fertilizer
while in growth and as they mature a lessening is desireable.
