Category: Dendrobium

This medium-sized orchid is native to Flores Island in the Lesser Sunda Islands, growing as a hot to warm epiphyte at elevations up to 600 meters. It has erect canes with several lanceolate, acute leaves. Blooming in late spring to early summer, it produces arching to pendulous inflorescences with several to many flowers.

This large orchid is found in Hainan, southeastern China, the Himalayas, and parts of South and Southeast Asia at 800-2400 meters in humid, mossy forests. It grows as an epiphyte, lithophyte, or terrestrial plant with long, arching or pendulous stems up to 120 cm, thickest in the middle, and has deciduous oblong to lanceolate leaves.… Continue reading Dendrobium fimbriatum

This pendulous epiphyte grows in the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Malaysia at 150 to 1000 meters, high up on tall trees in evergreen and montane forests over rivercourses. It has clavate or fusiform, four-angled stems with 2 to 4 coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate leaves near the apex. Blooming in spring, it produces long,… Continue reading Dendrobium farmeri ‘Burma’

This pendulous epiphyte grows in the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Malaysia at 150 to 1000 meters, high up on tall trees in evergreen and montane forests over rivercourses. It has clavate or fusiform, four-angled stems with 2 to 4 coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate leaves near the apex. Blooming in spring, it produces long,… Continue reading Dendrobium farmeri

This large epiphyte grows in southern Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Papua & New Guinea, Vanuatu, and the Solomon Islands at 500 to 2000 meters, often on large trees near mangrove swamps and lower montane forests. It has pendant, many-angled, noded stems with numerous lanceolate leaves. Blooming in fall and winter, it produces short, pendant… Continue reading Dendrobium erosum

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This medium-sized epiphyte grows in thick montane forests from 500 to 2000 meters in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, southern China, and Vietnam. It has pendulous, slender, many-noded stems with narrow, leathery leaves. Blooming in late winter to spring, it produces a 30 to 32.5 cm long inflorescence with 12… Continue reading Dendrobium devonianum

This miniature epiphyte is found in Myanmar and Thailand at around 200 meters in hot climates. It has short, stout pseudobulbs that taper towards the apex and carry 3 to 5 linear-oblong leaves. Blooming in summer and early fall, it produces several small inflorescences, each 2 to 3 cm long, bearing 3 to 6 flowers… Continue reading Dendrobium cuspidatum

This medium to large epiphyte grows in tropical valleys, lower montane, and swamp peat forests across South and Southeast Asia at elevations of 300 to 1500 meters. It has pendulous, laterally flattened pseudobulbs with 4 to 6 deciduous leaves. Blooming in winter and summer, its 10 cm long racemose inflorescence emerges from the lateral nodes… Continue reading Dendrobium cumulatum

This orchid is a small to large, hot-growing epiphyte found in Malaysia and southern Thailand’s lowlands. It has pendant stems that narrow at the base, with many bright green, lanceolate leaves. In the fall, it blooms on a short, 1.25 cm long inflorescence emerging from leafless canes, producing 2 to 3 bright orange flowers.