Dendrobium findlayanum Par. & Rchb.f 1874 SECTION Dendrobium Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name Findlay's Dendrobium {English Collector in Borneo 1800's] - In Thailand - Phuang yok

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

A medium to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic orchid that is found in the Chinese Himalayas, Myanamar, Thailand and Laos at altitudes of 1000 to 1700 meters in mixed forests with compressed bilaterally, each node swollen, to 7 nodes, green turning yellow, to 22" [50 cm] long, stems that are sulcate with age and carry deciduous, narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, acute, bright green leaves and blooms in the winter and spring on a very short, axillary, racemose inflorescence that arises from the nodes near the apex of mature leafless canes with a few, longlasting, fragrant flowers. From fall to winter water should be reduced but in late winter fertilizer and water should be stopped altogether and only resumed with the onset of new growth.

Synonyms Callista findlayana (Parish & Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium findleyanum Par. & Rchb.f 1874 mispelling

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen Mori 1997; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Australian Orchid Review Vol 71 No 6 2006/7 photo; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Wild Orchids in Myanamar Vol 3 Tanaka 2007;

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