Dendrobium Samurai Orchid Hybrid

The beautiful Dendrobium Samurai orchid is a primary orchid hybrid
from a cross breeding of Dendrobium stratiotes x Dendrobium antennatum.
We stumbled upon this outstanding orchid,
while we did photographic works in an orchid shop at the Kamthieng Flower Market
in Chiang Mai / North Thailand.
The shop, which we been in, is a branch of an orchid breeder in Doi Saket, near Chiang Mai
and sells primarily orchid hybrids. For our team hybrids are always a big task,
not because of the photography, but to classify them
and try to get more information.
In this case, the young Thai salesman provided us at least with the name
of this beautiful and outstanding orchid.
We´ve not just been attracted by the flowers,
also the name Dendrobium Samurai was drawing our interest.
He told us the Dendrobium Samurai is a cross breeding from Japan,
which we couldn´t confirm. If the origin Japan is connected to an orchid
in Thailand, than You can expect a very high price.
We asked the young and very helpfulp man how much he would charge for the beauty.
To make it short, we bought the Dendrobium Samurai for 120.- Thai Baht.
Flower size without the “antennas”: about 3 cm

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Image: Dendrobium Samurai (Dendrobium stratiotes x Dendrobium antennatum),
Macro
Photographer: Posantor “Chocolate” Saelie

© Orchids Flowers.com
Image: Dendrobium Samurai (Dendrobium stratiotes x Dendrobium antennatum)
Photographer: Posantor “Chocolate” Saelie