Category: Dendrobium

This small orchid grows in open forests across South and Southeast Asia at elevations of 700 to 1800 meters. It thrives as a warm to cool growing epiphyte with 15 to 30 cm long, pendant, ridged pseudobulbs that are whitish with purple stripes. It has six leathery, deciduous leaves. Blooming in late winter and spring,… Continue reading Dendrobium cretaceum

This small orchid is found in Southeast Asia’s lowland and montane forests at elevations up to 1200 meters. It grows as a hot to cool epiphyte, needing shade, high humidity, and moisture from spring to autumn. Its clustered stems bear 10 to 14 overlapping, fleshy leaves. Blooming in fall, it produces a short, 1-inch inflorescence… Continue reading Dendrobium concinnum

This medium-sized orchid is found in Borneo’s lower moss forests, growing as an epiphyte or lithophyte at 600–2200 meters in warm to cold conditions. It has thin, ridged stems that thicken before tapering at the apex and bear linear-oblong leaves. Blooming in spring and fall, it produces a short, 5 cm inflorescence near the apex… Continue reading Dendrobium cinnabarinum

This miniature to small epiphytic orchid grows in highland primary cloud forests of northern Vietnam, northern Thailand, and southwestern China at 800–1600 meters. It thrives in warm to cool conditions, forming clustered, short pseudobulbs with black-haired sheaths. Each pseudobulb carries two lanceolate, bilobed leaves with black hairs underneath. Blooming in late spring and summer, it… Continue reading Dendrobium christyanum

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This small to medium-sized epiphytic orchid grows in Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the Moluccas at elevations of 0–1150 meters. It has erect or pendulous, yellowish, 9-noded stems covered in papery sheaths and up to six rich green, coriaceous leaves. Blooming from spring through fall, it produces 3–8 scented, waxy flowers in dense,… Continue reading Dendrobium bracteosum ‘pink’

This small to medium-sized epiphytic orchid grows in Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and the Moluccas at elevations of 0–1150 meters. It has erect or pendulous, yellowish, 9-noded stems covered in papery sheaths and up to six rich green, coriaceous leaves. Blooming from spring through fall, it produces 3–8 scented, waxy flowers in dense,… Continue reading Dendrobium bracteosum ‘alba’

This mini-miniature epiphytic orchid grows in the Himalayas, China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam at 700–2100 meters. It has tufted, erect to suberect, short, gray-green stems with fine black hairs and leathery, deciduous leaves. Blooming mostly in spring, it produces a short, axillary inflorescence with 3–5 fragrant, lemon-orange scented, long-lasting flowers held close to the… Continue reading Dendrobium bellatulum

This medium-sized, cool-growing epiphytic orchid is native to Sumatra. It has closely set stems with 15 oblong leaves that are unequally and obtusely bilobed at the tip, with short black hairs on the leaf sheaths. Blooming from an axillary, short, single-flowered inflorescence, it features two narrowly lanceolate, acute floral bracts. It thrives in cool, humid… Continue reading Dendrobium ayubii

This large epiphytic orchid is found on Java’s south-facing coastal hills at elevations up to 800m. It grows in hot to warm conditions with horizontal stems having numerous ovate-lanceolate leaves that twist to face one direction. Blooming in winter and summer, it produces short, axillary inflorescences, 3–4 cm long, with 3–6 flowers emerging from older… Continue reading Dendrobium arcuatum