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VEGETATIVE GROWTH
- Oval in shape at its base
- Sharply pointed tip
- Almost triangular in shape from the side
- When 75 to 100 mm long, tip separates showing the ends of the individual leaves
- Growth rate is relatively slow
FLOWER SPIKE
- Rounded in shape, with blunt tip
- 'Gives' when pressed with fingers
- FOUND
- between the pseudobulb and new leaf growth
- in the axil of an outer leaf which splits
- on the opposite side of the newly developing pseudobulb to the differrently shaped leaf growth
- Growth is comparatively rapid
- They are often darker coloured than the vegetative growth
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