Bulbophyllum elisae

Bulbophyllum elisae, commonly known as pineapple orchid, is a species of epiphytic or lithophytic orchid that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has crowded, wrinkled, pale green or yellowish clump-forming pseudobulbs, stiff, pale green to yellowish leaves and between three and twelve pale green to dark green flowers with a dark red to purple labellum. It usually grows in the tops of rainforest trees, on cliff faces or boulders.

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Is it poisonous?

We have no record of Bulbophyllum elisae being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

• Dendrobium monophyllum
• Bulbophyllum tuberculatum
• Bulbophyllum bifurcatoflorens
• Polystachya ottoniana
• Pholidota cantonensis
• Bulbophyllum exiguum

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Bulbophyllum

Species

Bulbophyllum elisae

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