Whitish Dendrobium speciosum

[Rosim_in_BR]

This is whiter than the other I posted a few days ago. Also its perfume is somewhat different, but stunning. It is some sort of herbal aroma (hard, if not impossible, to describe perfumes, ha?) that keeps your nose glued to the flowers, so wonderful it is!
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For comparison purposes, I put side by side the two flowers. Both photos were taken three days after they were open in each case, as a way of preserving any possible value for the comparison.

[Dantheman]

here were they are native and line breed extensively we can go from a dark gold or orange to a pure white and anything in between including dwarf forms large flowered forms etc

[cb977]

WOW!!! This might be a new favorite for me!!!

[Tindomul]

OMG!! That is really nice. I am becoming a dendro convert. I should like dendros, after all, i like Bulbo's.
This one reminds me of Bulbophyllum.

[Rosim_in_BR]

Originally Posted by Dantheman

we can go from a dark gold or orange to a pure white

That's cool! Can you post (if possible!) a picture of a dark gold one?

[Dantheman]

here is a link

http://members.optusnet.com.au/elanb...;20Clones.html

[smweaver]

Those flowers are beautiful, Rosim. I bought a speciosum two years ago that was supposedly the dwarf form, a variety called pedunculatum (although I think that many taxonomists have now moved this up from a varietal type to the species level). It's a really neat plant, with rock-hard leaves that can take a heck of a lot more sunlight than just about anything else I grow (the only New World species I have that can sit beside it in the baking sun over the summer is Rhyncholaelia digbyana, which also seems to be a plant designed to take a fair amount of abuse). I think I need to travel to Australia one day to take a look at what the standard sized speciosums are like, because my pedunculatum is only a "dwarf" in the most liberal application of the term. It's easily approaching two feet tall with this year's new growths--and I haven't even been fertilizing it all that much! But on the plus side, it did flower last winter and produced three spikes of wonderful creamy white flowers. I was not, however, too impressed with the perfume on my plant; however, a friend of mine also has a speciosum that produced flowers last winter that had an exceptionally nice fragrance. I might try to be sneaky this winter and haul my plant over to his greenhouse and switch it with his speciosum when he's not paying attention :-). Congratulations on your flowers!

Steve

[Neverend]

Wow... gorgeous!

[cupcake]

OH WOW! Stunning is the word! That is just SO beautiful!