Aerides multiflora

Aerides multiflora is a beautiful foxtail orchid, that has a great scent and comes from Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, western Himalayas, Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland tropical and subtropical forests at elevations of sealevel to 1100 meters, blooms in May, June or July and is a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing, monopodial orchid with a stout, many leafed stem, carrying ligulate, distichous, curved, bilobed apically leaves that is deeply channeled and keeled and blooms in the spring and summer on a a rarely branched, 30 cm long, pendulous, many [to 50] flowered inflorescence with waxy, fragrant flowers.