Which species of Aristolochia ?

[Shobha Halwe-Chavda]

Dear Friends,

 Since last two days I have been receiving  a post on WhatsApp along with photos of a flower बदकवेल ( in Marathi) i.e.Aristolochia.The post gives a reference of Marathi paper ( Divya Marathi Bhaskar) and says that this flower has bloomed in the garden of Ms. Meenakshi Vani- Ex.President,Garden Club Jalgaon ( Maharashtra). I have searched for the species of this flower on web but none of the species from Aristolochia seemed to be of this shape and complete white in colour.The flower really looks unbelievable.

Can anyone help in identifying this ? Posting the photos of this flower.

By any chance can this be a fake post ?

Regards,

Shobha

[Satish Phadke]

This is circulating on Whatsapp

Doesn't look like Aristolochia though.

The pictures belong to "White egret orchid" a small terrestrial orchid found in Japan

Pecteilis radiata/ Habenaria radiata

Pankaj ji will throw more light on it

Dr Satish Phadke

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[Shobha Halwe-Chavda]

Thanks Satish ji. So at least these are true pictures and not like earlier "Narilatha" photos which were circulating on WhatsApp sometime back. But the shape is really unbelievable.
Regards.
Shobha

[Shobha Halwe-Chavda]

One more doubt as a layperson Satish ji ! Do orchids grow as creepers also ?
Regards,
Shobha

[J.M. Garg]

Some earlier relevant feedback:

This is circulating on Whatsapp Doesn't look like Aristolochia though. The pictures belong to "White egret orchid" a small terrestrial orchid found in Japan Pecteilis radiata/ Habenaria radiata Pankaj ji will throw more light on it Dr Satish Phadke

Thanks Satish ji. So at least these are true pictures and not like earlier "Narilatha" photos which were circulating on WhatsApp sometime back. But the shape is really unbelievable. Regards. Shobha

One more doubt as a layperson Satish ji ! Do orchids grow as creepers also ? Regards, Shobha

Pecteilis species so far in efi

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[Gurcharan Singh]

Forwarding for ID

Distributed as Pecteilis species- Jalgaon

Group discussion at

Which species of Aristolochia ? (google.com)

[Gurcharan Singh]

Forwarding for ID

Distributed as Pecteilis species- Jalgaon

Group discussion at

Which species of Aristolochia ? (google.com)

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[Saroj Kasaju]

Pecteilis radiata (Thunb.) Raf. !

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

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[Pankaj Kumar]

This is Pecteilis radiata and most likely copied from INTERNET and very often with a fake story attached. Its found in upper Asia.

Pankaj

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[Gurcharan Singh]

Thanks Saroj ji and dear Pankaj.

[Saroj Kasaju]

Thank you Gurucharan sir !

Saroj Kasaju

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Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

[Shobha Chavda]

Thanks Pankaj ji

Regards