Coelogyne roschussenii
This medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte is found in Malaya, Borneo, Java and Sumatra and east to the Philippines in lowlands often on trees overhanging rivers at elevations up to 1500 meters with 3.4 to 1.4" between each, cylindric, narrow, strongly furrowed pseudobulbs carrying 2, oblanceolate to obovate, rounded and slightly acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the 2" [5 cm] long, petiolate base leaves and blooms in the winter in Singapore cultivation on a basal, to more than 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, pendant, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and with brown basal bracts with up to 40 fragrant, lemon-scented, simultaneously opening flowers. The flowers semi-close each night and reopen in the morning with the sun's arrival.(From IOSPE).
I waited for this plant to bloom for five years. I got tired, and off it was consigned to the farm. It bloomed in less than 6 months.
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