ເອື້ອງກຸຫຼາບກະເປົາປິດ / White Rose Orchid

Use
Income
Medicine
Ornamental
Scientific Name / Family
Aerides odorata Lour. / Orchidaceae
Synonyms
Aerides ballantiniana Rchb.f.
Aerides cornuta Roxb.
Aerides dayana Guillaumin
Aerides flavida Lindl.
Aerides jucunda Rchb.f.
Aerides latifolia (Thunb. ex Sw.) Sw.
Other Names
Chinese: Xiang Hua Zhi Jia Lan
Botanical Description

High up in trees in bright sun with very stout, drooping, branching stems carrying fleshy, incurved, oblong-lingulate, round lobed at the apex, broad, pale green leaves. As its name implies it is highly fragrant and blooms in the late spring through fall on up to 3, sharply pendant, to  60 cm long, many to 30 flowered, cylindrical inflorescence that arise out of the leaf axils and as developing can be very sticky and giving rise to many, waxy, very fragrant flowers.

Chinese Himalayas, western Himalayas, Assam, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam.
Broadleaf, evergreen,  forests as a large, highly variable, hot to cool weather growing epiphyte at elevations of 200 to 2000 meters

Description of Use

Part of plant used :roots and leaves fresh.Traditional purpose: Used to treat cuts and wounds, used to treat joint-pain and swellings. taken orally twice a day for 20 days against tuberculosis. Price per Plant 20-80 000 kip in bloom.

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