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    • Elegant rein orchid
  • Scientific names
    • Piperia elegans

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What

Elegant rein orchid Piperia elegans

Observer

folini

Date

Oct 2, 2011
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What

Elegant rein orchid Piperia elegans

Observer

loarie

Date

Sep 17, 2011 12:24 PM PDT
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What

Elegant rein orchid Piperia elegans

Observer

folini

Date

Aug 27, 2011
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Description from Wikipedia

Piperia elegans is a species of orchid known by several common names, including elegant piperia, coast piperia, hillside rein orchid, and hillside bogorchid. This is a showy flowering plant native to western North America. It grows from a caudex tuber and sends up a thick stem just under a meter in maximum height. The stem is topped with a cylindrical spike inflorescence of densely packed flowers with curving white to greenish-yellow petals. Coastal individuals are noticeably...

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