this is a Dendrobium _______?

[djuna]

sunnyblue greetings from finland...

after nursing a dendrobium nobile through winter and now just waiting for it to show some signs of life (http://www.orchidboard.com/community...um-nobile.html), i recently found myself in a flower shop with another dendrobium on my hands!

my guess: dendrobium bigibbum hybrid, evergreen.

the tallest pseudobulb is about 7 inches tall.

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

Dendrobium hybrid in the section Phalaenanthe. That's all I know. Without a label, it's not possible to nail it down to grex and cultivar names.

[WhiteRabbit]

Lovely!

[Bud]

I can see the bigibbum form of the spike, flower, leaves and the plant bulbs; but the color is quite different even compared to other variations. It must have another parent cross to produce that monochromatic tones.

[djuna]

thanks, everyone. that this plant belongs to the section phalaenanthe should be enough to help me properly care for it. quite a departure from the growing pattern of the dendrobium nobile. this is apparently a warm-growing evergreen variety so i will not be making room for this in the cold cellar come autumn! =)

oh and by the way, if this rings a bell for anyone, the leaf edges are maroon as well as the leaf spine underneath. or is that common? i haven't the faintest.

[Bloomin_Aussie]

Looks like one of those hybrids that was phalaenanthe X spatulata or latourea then back-crossed to phalaenanthe for several generations.