Dendrobium thyrsiflorum B S Williams 1871 SECTION Densiflora
Photo by Patricia Harding.
Photo by Dale Borders.
Photo by Eric Hunt, plant grown by Hanging Gardens
Common Name The Pine Cone-Like Raceme Dendrobium - In Thailand - Ueang mawn khai - In China Qui Hua Shi Hu
Flower Size to 2" [to 5 cm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Hainan China, Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam at elevations of 1200 to 2000 meters as a small to large sized, cool growing, epiphytic, lithophytic or terrestrial speciesfound in humid, mossy mixed and coniferous forests with slender, ridged, rounded, club-shaped, yellowish apically stems carrying 5 to 7, persistent, smooth, flexible, dark green leaves that blooms in the spring on a pendant, 12" [30 cm] long, densly several to many [30 to 50] fragrant flowered raceme that arise from near the apex of the cane.
Mount on driftwood, water sparingly through the winter months and reduce the fertilizer until the initiation of new growth in the spring. Then full on watering and fertilizer till fall. Air circulation and bright light are essential for blooming.
Synonyms Callista thyrsiflora (Rchb.f. ex André) M.A.Clem. 2003; Dendrobium densiflorum var. alboluteum Hook.f. 1869; Dendrobium galliceanum Linden 1890; Dendrobium thyrsiflorum var. bronckartii Cogn. 1904; Dendrobium thyrsiflorum var. minutiflorum Aver. 2012
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