This plant, with a leafspan approaching four feet, flowers every fall and is a breeze to grow and bloom. If you've got room for it, it makes a wonderful display. I've had this plant for many years, and it tends to produce multiple leads each year. This year it has thirty-eight new leads that are flowering. The flowers are highly fragrant (especially if you enjoy the scent of laundry detergent
). The flowers also happen to be a mosquito magnet (luckily, I think it's the male mosquitoes--and not the vampire females--that seem to be entranced by the scent since I'm never attacked when I water the plant and disturb all of its admirers).
Dendrochilum magnum
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