Cute NOID Dendrobium

[Paphluvr]

This Dendrobium caught my eye and followed me home from Kroger. I'm not even sure what group of Dendros it belongs to but I must be doing something right. It's grown three new canes since I purchased it and this is my first rebloom of it. The tallest cane when I purchased it was 4.75" and the newest is now 7".

[WaterWitchin]

Great find at a Krogers! Never see anything like that at my local Krogers/Dillons!

[Roberta]

Great catch! It looks like it is in the Den-phal group, just a mini. Probably Den bigibbum var. compactum in its ancestry.

[Dusty Ol' Man]

I saw what looked like an oncidium with a tall spike of flowers at Kroger the other day. I picked it up to look for a tag and saw the price. $65!!! I put it down and walked away, shaking my head. I'm not paying that much for any noid. No matter how pretty they are.

[Orchidtinkerer]

That is a dendrobium Sa-nook polar fire.
A warm growing phal. 65-85F

[Roberta]

Originally Posted by Orchidtinkerer

That is a dendrobium Sa-nook polar fire.
A warm growing phal. 65-85F

The culture is spot-on. However, one can almost never definitively identify a NOID hybrid... it can "look like" and be tagged accordingly, but enough hybrids of similar parentage that look similar, that one can't "take it to the bank" or judging or hybridizing. What a hobbyist writes on their own tags is nobody else's business.

[Orchidtinkerer]

I agree but I'm still saying that is a Sa-nook because they dominate the den phal market. Unless someone else has bred and trademarked a bunch of den phals. Sa-nook expanded the choice in the past 10 years or so- that is why I recognise the flower so unless someone copied them which I am not aware of that is most likely a sa-nook orchid