My orchid room gets filled with wonderful fragrance every year around May, and the fragrance intensifies in the evening. We were away for 10 days at the end of May this year, so we missed quite a bit of this experience, but there are still some Vanda (Neofinetia) falcata blooming in the mid-June. This variety, 高隈 (Takakuma), has white tiger variegation, and the pattern is fairy fuzzy (i.e. the borders of white and green parts are not sharply defined). You might be wondering why this is "white" variegation since the variegation in the photo shows more yellowish patches. But they are whiter in the new leaves and as the leaves become older, the variegation either disappears and/or becomes yellowish. Most leaves on this plant are from last year or earlier, so you don't see the new leaves with white variegation in the photo. Horiuchi (1995) mentioned that it would retain the beautiful variegation longer if it is grown under more shady condition, bu...
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