Re: Dendrobium flowering from leafless stems

grdengrl wrote:


I do believe that some dendrobs shed their coat in the winter, I'm just

not


certain that mine is of that species.

Mariana

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Indeed, a number of them do, flowering in spring from bare stems.


Which species does that?

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Hi Mariana, you still with us (don't remember you posting for a
while) ? At any rate, here's a list of several species (and one hybrid)
which flower in the spring from bare stems.
Most have tepals (sepals + petals) in various shades of
pink/lavender/purple and a white/yellow lip; all have narrow semi-erect
or pendulous stems:

(a) superbum - pale lav. tepals, white lip with purple in throat
(b) primulinum - pink tepals, broad cream lip
(c) anosmum - pink/lavender tepals
(d) pierardii - pink tepals, lavender lip
(e) topaziacum - dense clusters of small flowers from the nodes;
                 yellow/orange tepals, red in lip throat
(f) parishii - tepals light rose-purple, white densely-fringed lip
               purple in throat
(g) D. Nestor (the hybrid; parishii x anosmum) - dark lavender
               tepals, purple lip
-jrf
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Jim Fisher
Vienna, Virginia USA
38.9 N 77.2 W
USDA Zone 7
Max. 105 F [40 C], Min. 5 F [-15 C]

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