Our Warm Asia section is currently filled with the delicious scent of this giant Vanda species.

The plant is now over 2m tall with large flower spikes of beautiful waxy flowers, and a heady sweet scent.

This grand orchid is native to lowland forest in Java and is clearly determined to become a giant orchid over time. The plant produces stiff alternate leaves 30cm long.

The plant is loving life in Warm Asia and has two new growths coming near the base an so will become a multi-stemmed plant over time.

Sometimes this plant is listed as a the species Vanda suavis, separate from the other form of Vanda tricolor (also found in Java) which has fewer, rounder flowers, but we will follow theplantlist.org in our labelling.