I got this Rangaeris muscicola from Afri Orchids relatively recently (spring 2018). One of the interesting features of this species is that the individual flowers change the color as they age from white to yellow or orange in older flowers. You can see that the top right flower is the old flower with yellow color. Old flowers of mine doesn't have intense color, but I have seen photos of some other plants with a strong contrast, and one may be puzzled that a single plant is producing two different types of flowers. It has a nice sweet fragrance, but it has a little chemical touch, and I wouldn't call it my favorite. Stewart et al (2006) mentioned that the color of spur was pinkish-orange, but my plant has yellowish-green spurs. The top flower is starting to change the color. Rangaeris is a small African genus with about 5 species. This species has a large geographic distribution including Western (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mal...
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