  In a manganite film without quenched disorder, we show texturing in the form
of insulating and metallic stripes above and below Curie temperature (Tc),
respectively, by high resolution scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy
(STM/STS). The formation of these stripes involves competing orbital and charge
orders, and are an outcome of overlapping electron wave-functions mediated by
long-range lattice strain. Contrary to popular perception, electronically
homogeneous stripe phase underlines the efficacy of the lattice strain in
bringing about charge density modulation and in impeding the cross-talk between
the order parameters, which otherwise evolves inhomogeneously in the form of
orbitally-ordered insulating and orbitally disordered metallic phases.
