Pleione limprichtii *MINI*

[ospylac]

Here's a tiny pleione, one of the most cold hardy of the genus.

They're all asleep now, but the picture says it all, huge flowers, and no leaves.
Fragrant too, jasmineish, and long blossoming. Several managed two flowers per bulb.
Their life cycle is wacky, each bulb produces an inflorescence once and then perishes. They're grown more like a daffodil or tulip than a typical orchid. Pleiones mostly reproduce vegetatively, each flowering bulb grows a new bulb before it dies. Each year they also produce little bonus bulbils that take a couple years to grow on to flowering size. They are not an annual, that implies progressing from seed to adult with flower and seed production in one year.