Dendrobium is one of the biggest groups (genus) in the Orchidaceae family. The genus Dendrobium was etablished in 1799 by Olof Peter Swartz. Dendrobium orchids are mostly endemic to Asia (South, East, Southeast), but also to Australia and New Zealand. Nowadays the Dendrubium genus contains about 1200 species. The abbreviation in horticultural trade is: Den.
Dendrobium finisterrae Schltr. 1912, commonly called End of the World Orchid (finisterrae), is an epiphytic growing orchid species, native to the world’s second largest island New Guinea (Papua Island). The strange name of this tropical orchid doesn`t refer to the day of doom, it refers to the Finisterrae range, a mountain range in north-eastern Papua Read More »
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Dendrobium signatum Rchb. f. 1884 is an epiphytic growing orchid species, native to Myanmar (formerly Burma), Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. Dendrobium signatum orchids are found in 2 color forms (see pictures), with and without magenta-red blotches. The fragrant and long-living flowers get a size of about 5-7 cm. Flowering period: February - April. The tropical Read More »
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Dendrobium Lanna Scent is an epiphytic growing orchid hybrid, a crossing between Dendrobium Hiroshi Tokunaga (seed parent) and Dendrobium scabrilingue (pollen parent). The Dendrobium orchid hybrid, with its highly fragrant flowers, has been registered with the Royal Horticultural Society by the Unversity of Chiang Mai, North Thailand in the year 2007. The name Lanna refers Read More »
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Dendrobium serratilabium L.O. Williams 1937 is an epiphytic growing orchid species, native to the island of Luzon, Philippines. Flowers get a size of about 4 cm. Flowering period: October - December. The tropical orchid requires a warm to hot, humid climate and regularly watering and fertilizing. Watering should be restricted during the winter rest, until Read More »
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Dendrobium lindleyi Steud. 1840 is a small sized, epiphytic growing orchid species, native to India (Assam), Myanmar (formerly Burma), South China, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Dendrobium lindleyi is easily confused with Dendrobium jenkinsii, but the longer inflorescences are packed with up to 20 flowers, much more than Dendrobium jenkinsii. The fragrant flowers get a Read More »
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Dendrobium tetragonum A. Cunn. 1839 is an epiphytic growing orchid species, native to Australia (New South Wales and North Queensland). The highly fragrant flowers of Dendrobium tetragonum get a width of about 5 cm and a length of about 15 cm. The very short inflorescences carry up to about 5 flowers and shouldn`t be removed Read More »
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Dendrobium lawesii F. Muell. 1884 is an epiphytic growing, medium sized orchid species, native to the island of New Guinea. The orchid species has been described by the German- Australian physician, geographer and botanist Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller (30. June 1825 – 10. October 1896) in the year 1884 and has been Read More »
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Dendrobium jenkinsii Wall. ex Lindl. 1839 is a small epiphytic growing orchid species, native to the Himalayas, India (Assam), Nepal, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Thailand, Laos and South China (Hainan). Dendrobium jenkinsii is often confused with Dendrobium lindleyi, as the yellow flowers look quite similar, but Dendrobium jenkinsii has a short inflorescence with just up to Read More »
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Dendrobium ypsilon Seidenf. 1985 is an epiphytic growing miniature orchid species, native to the South of Thailand. Inflorescences carry up to 5 flowers. Flowers get a size of a bit more than 1 cm. Flowering season: Spring - Summer. Dendrobium ypsilon orchids are protected by CITES Appendix II (trade controlled to avoid use incompatible with Read More »
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Orchid hybrids are not just man-made, there are also natural hybrids, created by mother nature. The beautiful and cute, epiphytic growing Dendrobium × usitae T.Yukawa 1995 is a natural hybrid, a crossing between the Dendrobium species orchids Dendrobium goldschmidtianum (seed parent) and Dendrobium bullenianum (pollen parent). Dendrobium × usitae nothospecies orchids (as it`s a hybrid, Read More »
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Dendrobium nobile Lindl. 1830 is certainly one of the best known and most easy to care Dendrobium orchids and widely used as a parent for hybridisation. The epiphytic, occasionally lithophytic growing, middle sized orchid is native to India (Assam, Sikkim), the Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. There are lots of Read More »
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Dendrobium Stardust is an epiphytic growing orchid hybrid, a crossing from the species orchid Dendrobium unicum (seed parent) and the hybrid Dendrobium Ukon (pollen parent). The orchid hybrid with its showy, waxy, yellow flowers has been registered with the Royal Horticultural Society in 1986 by N.Asai. The long-lasting flowers of Dendrobium Stardust, get a size Read More »
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Dendrobium New Guinea is a primary orchid hybrid, a crossing from the species orchids Dendrobium macrophyllum (seed parent) and Dendrobium atroviolaceum (pollen parent), which both belong to the Dendrobium Latouria section, often misspelled as Latourea. The Latouria section was formerly an own orchid genus, called Latouria, established by German-Dutch botanist Karl Ludwig Blume (1796-1862) in Read More »
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Dendrobium Neifert’s Alexpoly is an epiphytic growing, primary orchid hybrid,a breeding from Dendrobium alexandrae (seed parent) and Dendrobium polysema (pollen parent). Dendrobium Neifert’s Alexpoly has been registered with the Royal Horticultural Society in the year 2005 by David Neifert, the owner of Hanalei orchids, Kapaa, Hawaii. The stunning, but strange looking flowers get a size Read More »
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Dendrobium Maiden Charlotte is an epiphytic growing, primary orchid hybrid, a breeding from Dendrobium rhodostictum F. Muell. & Kraenzl. 1894 (seed parent) and Dendrobium aberrans Schltr. 1912 (pollen parent), which are both native to New Guinea. The small Dendrobium Maiden Charlotte orchid, with its cute, white flowers has been registered with the Royal Horticultaral Society Read More »
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Lemonia (Ravenia spectabilis)
Bulbophyllum orectopetalum
Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi Blume & Rchb. f. 1860
Epidendrum ciliare (Coilostylis ciliaris)
Man of the Earth (Ipomoea pandurata)
Dendrobium infundibulum Lindl.1859
Paphiopedilum insigne
Crimson Bottlebrush (Callistemon citrinus)
Phalaenopsis Golden Beauty
Paphiopedilum parishii
Hoya megalaster
Vandachostylis Thai Sky
Phalaenopsis violacea fo. coerulea Christenson
Oceanblue Morning Glory (Ipomoea indica)
Buddha’s Lamp (Mussaenda philippica var. aurorae)
Hoya waymaniae Kloppenb.1995
Brassia Eternal Wind “Summer Dream”
Phalaenopsis × valentinii
Hoya carnosa white
Cattleya Tainan City
Hoya macgillivrayi F. M. Bailey 1914
Monkey Flower Tree (Phyllocarpus septentrionalis)
Bulbophyllum sikkimense (Cirrhopetalum sikkimense)
Spathoglottis Citrus Cooler Sorbet