Aerides rosea

Aerides rosea is a medium to large sized, hot to cool growing, monopodial epiphyte or lithophyte with clumping pendulous stems carrying several ligulate leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a racemose or rarely branched, 60 cm long, densly many [20 to 25] flowered inflorescence with fragrant lily of the valley scented, waxy flowers occuring in the spring and summer from Vietnam, Thailand, Sikkim, Bhutan and Assam on open rocks and bluffs in evergreen and semideciduous forests at elevations of 300 to 1700 meters. This species needs to be watered and fertilized regularly and kept humid, with frequent mistings throughout the hot summer months.