Dendrobium schuetzei Rolfe 1911 SECTION Formosae Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl.
Flower Closeup Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
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Common Name Schuetze's Dendrobium
Flower Size to 3" [to 7.5 cm]
Found in the Philippines at elevations of 300 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to hot growing epiphyte and likes to be kept moist. They have erect, 12 noded, stems with many, narrolwy ovate, suberect, coriaceous, obscurely bilobed apically leaves that can bloom in the winter and fall on a short, 3 to 4 flowered raceme with fragrant, waxy flowers that is longer than the leaves and arising from bracts near the apex of the cane and like an even year round watering and fertilizing schedule.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984;; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids Australia Vol 10 No 4 1998 photo; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006
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