Aerides multiflora

[Bud]

These orchid plants are found growing in the forest of Assam, Bangladesh, Eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, western Himalayas, Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam
Plant blooms from spring to summer with up to fifty 2.5 cm wide flowers. Flowers are fragrant like raspberries.
I inherited this hanging in a plastic basket and give it bright to full sunlight and cool to warm temperatures out on the fire escape….the basket is in a bed of coconut fiber while I anchored the main root and sprinkled some medium media mix and let the roots hang free. Since it is hanging, I keep the roots watered frequently in the hot summer months but in winter it gets no fertilizer and watered only once a week.
I feed it k-lite and seaweed mix weekly weakly.
I have seen spikes of this orchid plant two feet long, with three and four branches on each spike. It is a profuse bloomer, and has been exhibited in competition with from thirty to forty spikes. It grows from two to three feet high, and makes one of the finest plants for exhibition, continuing in blossom three to four weeks.