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[[File:Angraecum_eburneum.jpg|thumb|''Angraecum eburneum'']]


'''Common Name:''' The Ivory-Colored Angraecum<br />
'''Scented:''' yes<br />
'''Light Requirements:''' partial shade<br />
'''Temperature Requirements:''' hot<br />
'''Blooms:''' early winter<br />
'''Flower Size:''' 7.5cm, 7cm spur<br />
'''Synonyms:''' ''Angorchis eburnea'' (Bory) Kuntze 1891; ''Angraecum eburneum var. virens'' (Lindl.) Hook. 1860; ''Angraecum virens'' Lindl. 1847; ''Limodorum eburneum'' (Bory) Willd. 1805
Found in Madagascar, the Mascareignes and Reunion as a large to giant sized, erect, hot growing monopodial epiphyte at elevations of sealevel to 750m with stout, branched stems carrying 10 to 15, rigid, coriaceous, ligulate, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the early winter. On an axillary, ascending or horizontal, to 120cm long, densely many flowered inflorescence with long-lived, inverted or non-resupinate, fragrant, heavily waxy flowers arranged in 2 ranks.
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