Dendrobium pendulum Roxb. 1832 SECTION Dendrobium Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website.
Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Marius Wasbauer
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Common Name The Pendant Growing Dendrobium - in Thailand - Wai pom - In China Zhong Jie Shi Hu
Flower Size 1.6 to 2.8" [4 to 7 cm]
Found in Hainan and Tibet China, Assam, Bangladesh, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in oipen forests on tree trunks as a small to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte in full sun at elevations of 760 to 1600 meters with tufted masses, decurved or pendulous, 7 to 16 noded, swollen at each node, sulcate, dull olive-green stems carrying deciduous, lanceolate, semi-amplexicaul, acute leaves that blooms on an axillary, short, few flowered inflorescence with boat-shaped, papery floral bracts that arise from the upper nodes on new leafed and old leafless canes with fragrant, long-lasting flowers occuring in the fall through spring but mostly in the late winter and early spring. Reduce water from fall until md-winter but do not let the plant become too dry, in late winter give only mistings until the new growth arises in the spring. Fertilizer may be curtailed or greatly reduced through the same period.
Synonyms Callista crassinodis (Benson & Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Callista pendula (Roxb.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium crassinode Benth. & Rchb. f. 1869; Dendrobium melanophthalmum Rchb.f?
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as D crassinode; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as D crassinode; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Beautiful Thai Orchid Species Kamemoto & Sagarik 1975 as D crassinode photo 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 photo fide; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;
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