Phaius. tankervilleae

Phaius. tankervilleae which is commonly known as the nun’s-hood orchid, is a robust perennial which produces large, multicoloured white, brown and pink flowers on tall stalks, and is a widely valued ornamental. It is native to parts of Asia and Oceania in lower montane woods and in grasslands in moist depressions with black soil at elevations up to 1300 meters as a large sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with ovoid or conical, green pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several leaf bearing sheaths with elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, plicate, thin-textured, petiolate leaves that blooms in the spring on a more than 120 cm long, erect, basal, racemose inflorescence.