Dendrobium cinereum J.J. Sm. 1920 SECTION Calcarifera Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Flicker Orchid Photostream

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Common Name The Light Gray Dendrobium

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Western Borneo in oak/laurel, stunted mossy ridge, lower montane forests and forests on sandstone and shale as a large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte at elevations around 750 to 1500 meters with clustered, slender, dirty green, shiney, longitudinaly grooved stems with many oblong, shiney, pearl grey above and dark purple beneath leaves that blooms in the later winter and earlier spring on short, few flowered inflorescence that arise on leafless stems from the nodes and carry fragrant flowers. Ample water and fertilizer while growing, ease up on the water slightly through the winter and drop the fertilizer for a month or so to promote good blooming.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 photo fide; Orchid Species Culture, Dendrobium Baker's 1996; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide;

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