Vanda testacea (not my photo)

Code: V.0x0000, V.0x0001, V.0x0002

Common Name: The Brick-Red Vanda
Scented: no
Light Requirements: partial sun
Temperature Requirements: intermediate to cool
Blooms: spring
Flower Size: 1.8 to 2cm
Synonyms: *Aerides testacea Lindl. 1833

Found in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, India, China, Nepal and Bhutan at elevations of 780 to 2000 metres as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect stem enveloped by leafless and leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying, equitant, oblong, coriaceous, unequally bilobed and tridentate apically leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, stout, 5 to 25cm long, laxly many flowered inflorescence.