DESCRIPTION
Pleione ‘Tongariro’ is a compact orchid that grows in the ground rather than on trees, admired for luminous violet pink petals and a broad white lip marked with golden and crimson patterning. Flowers open in mid to late spring before full leaf expansion, each bloom carried singly and held with gentle poise above the emerging foliage, bringing refined detail to alpine style containers and sheltered woodland displays.
Pleated green leaves rise from rounded pseudobulbs after flowering, followed by summer growth and a winter rest as dormant bulbs. The selection was made in New Zealand from Himalayan parentage, reflecting mountain origins adapted to cool seasonal rhythms and clear spring flowering.
DESCRIPTION
Pleione ‘Tongariro’ is a compact orchid that grows in the ground rather than on trees, admired for luminous violet pink petals and a broad white lip marked with golden and crimson patterning. Flowers open in mid to late spring before full leaf expansion, each bloom carried singly and held with gentle poise above the emerging foliage, bringing refined detail to alpine style containers and sheltered woodland displays.
Pleated green leaves rise from rounded pseudobulbs after flowering, followed by summer growth and a winter rest as dormant bulbs. The selection was made in New Zealand from Himalayan parentage, reflecting mountain origins adapted to cool seasonal rhythms and clear spring flowering.
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