Dendrobium albosanguineum Lindley & Paxt. 1852 SECTION Dendrobium Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl.

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Common Name The White and Blood-Red Dendrobium

Flower Size 2 to 3 5/8" [5 to 9 cm]

This small to medium sized, hot to cool growing, epiphytic species is found in Burma and Thailand at elevations of 300-600 meters with very stout, subclavate or cylindric clustered pseudobulbous canes with strongly developed nodes and covered in white sheathing bracts carrying linear-lanceolate, light green, somewhat translucent, deciduous leaves and blooms in the spring on a short, 2 to 7 flowered raceme with fragrant, fleshy, long-lived flowers that arise from the upper nodes of the more mature leafed and leafless canes and needs a semi-dry winter rest. They do best mounted on tree fern as they like to dry out between watering which should be daily throughout the growth season.

Synonyms Callista albosanguinea (Lindl. & Paxton) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium atrosanguineum E. Morren & De Voss [Spalm] ?

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; A Field Guide To The Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006

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