Delicate Dendrochilum
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DELICATE DENDROCHILUM Fragrant cream to yellow miniature flowers Dendrochilum Flowering R S56 resembling a string of cobbianum Size 120,00 pearls therefore, necklace orchid syn. Dendrochilum bicallosum Borneo, Malaya, Phillipines Coral coloured chains of Dendrochilum Flowering R miniature flowers on a small S156 convallariaeforme Size 140,00 plant. Grows in warm to intermediate conditions in semi shade with good air movement. Fragrant Phillipines A very interesting Dendrochilum with larger flowers for a Dendrochilum Dendrochilum Flowering R S232 (although still miniature) on cootesii Size 150,00 a twisted inflorescence Grows in intermediate conditions in semi shade with good air movement. Borneo, Phillipines Arching sprays of fragrant, 'feathery,' white miniature flowers with contrasting yellow lip. This species is easily recognised by Dendrochilum Flowering R partially closed flowers and S198 glumaceum Size 140,00 large floral bracts nearly half the length of the flower. Flowers in spring. Grows in filtered light conditions at intermediate temperatures with adequate air movement. Phillipines - Found growing as an pepiphyte at 1200m in bright light in mossy cloud forest. Warm Dendrochilum Flowering R growing,small size, leathery S277 javieri Size 140,00 leaves.Flowers from the new growth on a racemose, arching inflorescence. Many minute,bright yellow, fragrant flowers. Phillipines The 'large flowered' Dendrochilum Another beauty in this Dendrochilum Flowering R S227 genus - arching latifolium Size 120,00 inflorescences bear many transluscent-yellow/green flowers with a spunky orange lip Phillipines The 'Large' Dendrochilum - referring to the flower Dark cream chains of Dendrochilum flowers with a large cream latifolium var Flowering R bract - one of the larger- S182 latifolium AKA Size 150,00 flowering, very rewarding magnum Dendrochilum species that is a prolific bloomer and grows into beautiful specimen plants . Sweet, spicy fragrance ORIGIN/HABITAT: Distribution for his epiphytic orchid extends from peninsular Malaya to Borneo, Sumatra, and Java eastward through Indonesia to New Guinea. In Malaya, it is a common epiphyte on old mangroves and on trees by rivers in the low-lying south and in Pahang Province. Plants in Borneo have been found in Sarawak in the Kuching and Marudi districts where they were growing in hill forest and lower montane forest at 2300-3300 ft. (700-1000 Dendrochilum Flowering R S341 m). In Sumatra, plants longifolium Size 120,00 have been collected from various locations in West and North Sumatra at 2950-7200 ft. (900-2200 m), while in Java it has been reported only in the west, but details of habitat elevation were not given. In New Guinea, plants have been found at several locations in Central Province at 2600-5250 ft. (800-1600 m) and in Enga Province near Laiagam at 5900 ft. (18i00 m) and on Mt. Gurusual at 7200 ft. (2200 m). -- Source: Charles Baker Phillippines Found in montane forest on the island Luzon in the Philippines. Grows in semishade in warm to Dendrochilum Flowering R S259 intermediate conditions with stenophyllum Size 120,00 adequate air movement. The 'narrow leafed' Dendrochilum Fragrant. Pretty miniature. Malaysia. The grass-like Dendrochilum grow as an epiphyte in mossy forests of about 300 - 2500m. The plants are tufted with terete clustered pseudobulbs and terete leaves resembling fine grass. The flowers are minute and can flower from autumn through summer. Grows in dappled sunlight in warm to Dendrochilum Flowering R S187 intermediate conditions with tenellum Size 150,00 ample air movement. We grow them in pots. Delightful miniature. There has been a confusion about names in the Denrochilums - we have sold this plant as gramineum previously , but think tenellum is the correct name as gramineum has to have basally thickened pseudobulbs about 1cm apart. A species from the Philippines and Taiwan AKA Dendrochilum uncatum var formosanum Dendrochilum Flowering R Chains of translucent S57 uncatum Size 100,00 yellowish to greenish white flowers. Grows in dappled to bright light in warm to intermediate conditions Philippines Named after Wentzel who collected orchid in the Phillipines in Dendrochilum Flowering R the 19th century A S199 wenzelii Size 160,00 wonderful burgundy-red chain of dainty flowers Fragrant, fascinating miniature. Phillipines Jay Pfahl describes this orchid species as "Small sized, hot growing epiphyte with single leafed, narrowly cylindric, furrowed Dendrochilum Flowering R pseudobulbs with a stiff, S392 [Ddc.] yuccifolium Size 150,00 linear-lanceolate leaf and blooms in the winter and spring on an semi-arching, short, densely many flowered inflorescence arising with a new growth." FLOWER SIZE: 1.5 cm .