Epidendrum patens

Description

It is an orchid epiphytic medium size that grows in the tropical forests, you can also assume a behavior lithophyte in the same environments. It presents a stem erect or ascending, rather slender, covered by leaves that are amplessicauli, distichous, stiff, leathery, shape from ovate to elliptic, rarely oblong-elliptical, at an acute apex. Flowering occurs from late winter until late spring through a ' inflorescence terminal racemosa or paniculata, long petiolate, falling leading many flowers . These are about 3 cm, fragrant, with petals and sepals and white lip trefoil, variegated pink.