Angraecum aloifolium Hermans & Cribb (1997)

Geographical origin:

Epiphyte in dry forests of West Madagascar (Mahajunga). Sea level.

  

Culture :
 

This Angraecum can be grow mounted or in pot with sphagnum or medium barks.During hot season you must give it a lot of water.

The secret to make it bloom is a rest period during winter.
No water at all from late Autumn to middle or end of winter and during this period it must have a lot of light.

If you have seedlings which are not old enough to be able to bloom, don't give them this rest period, let them grow.

 

 

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Day 13: return at Antananarivo

 

 

The day gets up hardly when we leave Fianarantsoa.

 

Our day program, to return on our steps of the first days, that means return at Antananarivo.

 

 

The journey is long and the road, although still in rather good condition, is also borrowed by the herds which are going to serve to feed for the inhabitants of the capital and by carts pulled by zebus, full of various foodstuffs or charcoal.
 

The more we approach the capital and the more we see some, everybody converges on the big city to try to sell of what he had with difficulty managed to produce.

 

Only one stop today, in a place well known by my friends because here we can find two very rare orchids!!

 

 

 

Cynorkis gibbosa et Liparis microcharis

 

At the end of the afternoon we arrive at the Villa Amy, where arrived our first day in Madagascar.
After a good diner, everybody go in his sleeping room to sleep in a good and real bed.