Fringed-Lip Dendrobium is a large-sized, orchid growing on trees, rocks
or on the ground, with long, erect, arching or drooping, light-yellow
green when aged, to 4' long Stems. The stems are thickest in the middle
and have many oblong, to lanceshaped, pointed or tapering deciduous
leaves. The plant flowers in March through May but can bloom at most any
time on a pendant, in leaf-axils, 6-15 flowered raceme that arises from
the nodes near the tip of leafless and mature canes and has sour smelling
flowers and watering should be heaviest in the summer but they need some
water even in winters. Grow epiphytically on a bark slab, or in slatted
baskets with epiphytic orchid potting mix. A temperate-growing orchid,
requiring humidity and partial shade from late-spring through summer,
full light the remainder of the year. Keep dry in winter. Flowers best
in small containers.
Fringed-Lip Dendrobium is found in SE Asia in humid, mossy mixed and
coniferous forests at elevations of 500-2400 m.
Identification credit: Pankaj Kumar
Photographed in Imphal, Manipur.
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