dendrobium ?????

[katekir]

2 years ago i bought a dendrobium in a flower shop but i don't know what species it is it's just labeled "dendrobium". it hasn't rebloomed again en i don't know what kind of flowers it had anymore. can anybody help please i looked on the internet but most dendrobiumsplease.have more then 2 leaves on 1 psuedobulb mine has only 2 on each psuedobulb
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[RobS]

Please try to take some pictures away from the light to have a better quality. However my feeling is that this is not a Dendrobium but it could be an epicattleya. But difficult to tell due to the low quality of the pictures.

[RosieC]

The pictures are not at all clear, but my first thought was that it's not a Den, but rather a Cattleya.

I could be completely wrong, but Cattleya's tend to have either one or two leaves on the top of the pbulb and the leaf shape also reminds me of that.

It may be impossible to tell the exact species, it may not even be a species but a hybrid. I think you would need flowers to tell at all, but even then it may not be possible to know what hybrid it is as there can be many the same.

Are you able to take any clearer pictures that might confirm the genus (Dendrobium, Cattleya or something else entirely).

[katekir]

sorry for the bad quality of the pictures had to take them with my cellphone. i will post tomorrow other pictures .i have been looking on the net and i have to agree that i it has been mislabeled in the shop. thank you !!!!
i am a newbie only began to collect them for a couple of months.

[RobS]

you're welcome and good luck

[orchidsamore]

It is certainly a Cattleya hybrid based on the mis-id and where you got it.

The care is the same as for Dendrobium so the answer to the question you really had as to why it was not blooming is the same for either. Not enough light.

These plants will never flower in a house without high intensity lights.

It needs to go outside with morning sun and afternoon shade. In general they want 3500 foot candles of light. Summer sun is 10,000 around 1-3 in the afternoon.

[RobS]

I wouldn't say they will never flower without lights. My Cattleya has grown a flower sheet and shoot flower without having lights and just being in a west facing window of my house. Especially this probably being a hybrid it should have no problem flowering.

Be carefull to not put it in full midday (12-15) sun.

[katekir]

it has been for two years standing in front of a south facing window so maybe it need to give it a rest period because there are full grown psuedobulbs that have not flowered and now there are beginning to grow new ones

[RobS]

If the growths are starting don't give it a rest. Save this for when the bulbs mature again.