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Laelia tenebrosa 'Rainforest' FCC/AOS × self
 
 
 
 
Number: TN6425
Name: Laelia tenebrosa 'Rainforest' FCC/AOS × self
Type: self    (What's that?)
Seed Donor: Jeanne Thompson  (Email: symdesign99@yahoo.com)
 
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Culture Notes from Donor: Parent plant: Temperature range W (70-90°F). Grows outside in the summer in North Texas, and winters in a light cart in the kitchen. Very easy grower.
 
Comments: Parent plant: Medium-sized plant.
 
For additional origin/habitat information supplied courtesy of Charles and Margaret Baker, see further below, near the bottom of this page.

Temperatures we attempt to use in the lab & greenhouse:
For Species:   Spring, Summer, Autumn: days average 81°F, nights 68°F; best fit is Warm-Intermediate 87-64°F (Source: Baker's Web OSC)
For Species:   Winter: days average 73°F, nights 61°F; best fit is Cool-Intermediate 75-58°F (Source: Baker's Web OSC)

About the name...
Etymology of Laelia   One of the vestal virgins, Laelia. (Source: Pridgeon 1992)
Etymology of tenebrosa   From Latin "tenebrosus" dark-brown, black-brown. (Source: Mayr & Schmucker 1998)
Pronunciation of Laelia   LAY-lee-ah (Source: Pridgeon 1992)
Pronunciation of tenebrosa   ten-e-BROE-sa (Source: Hawkes 1978)
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Flask Information
Availability: We have sold all of the flasks for this item.
You should: Consider getting individual plants or compots instead of a flask.
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You may also place a "Notify Retries" Request, and if an identical pollination (the same parents) is done again, we'll let you know.

You may reserve a flask, but it's very unlikely you'll get one ...this could only happen if we found a flask that we didn't know we had.
Yield Estimate: 934 plants (based on flask surveys done 04/30/2009 through 11/10/2011)
Yield estimates are only approximate, but may appear to be fairly exact numbers because they are a combination of large rough estimates in remaining mother flasks and more accurate small estimates in reflasks.
Plantlet Sizes: From many flasks 20 - 100 mm plants (based on flask surveys done 10/28/2009 through 05/29/2012)
From one most recently surveyed flask 50 - 80 mm (05/29/2012)
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The origin/habitat information below is supplied courtesy of Charles and Margaret Baker

The following information is based on the name of the plant provided by the donor, and assumes that the name is correct. If the plant has been misidentified, then the following information may not be correct.
This text is copyrighted by the Bakers and may not be reproduced without permission.

ORIGIN/HABITAT: Brazil. The habitat is generally thought to extend from southern Bahia to northern Espírito Santo. Miranda (1990), however, reported that the habitat is limited to a very small area in southern Espírito Santo where plants grow on large trees in dense forest. He further stated that this limited habitat has been totally destroyed and that this species, which has always been rather rare, is now impossible to find in nature. Even with all that has been written about this large, showy species, few details of habitat location and elevation are available. Therefore, the habitat location and elevation is estimated based on the habitats of other species known to grow in the same habitat and to hybridize naturally with Laelia tenebrosa. However, growers should use the resulting Cultural Recommendations with caution.
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