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Fruit fly orchid
Bulbophyllum baileyi

About
Bulbophyllum baileyi, commonly known as the fruit fly orchid, is a species of epiphytic or lithophytic orchid that is native to Queensland and New Guinea. It has coarse, creeping rhizomes, curved, yellowish pseudobulbs with a single thick, fleshy leaf, and a single cream-coloured flower with yellow, red or purple spots. It grows on trees and rocks in open forest, often in exposed places.
- Family
- Orchidaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Bulbophyllum baileyi
- Slug
- bulbophyllum-baileyi
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Bulbophyllum
- Species
- baileyi
- Wikidata QID
- Q4987441
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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