Dendrobium "Magic Beans"
 

Yesterday, my friend John and I went to the Dayton Art Institute to pick up our society's orchids that we had entered for display and judgement. We submitted 16 plants and won seven ribbons: four/first, two/seconds and one/third.

John had a list of orchids he wanted, and so he went to the vendor room on an orchid hunt while I started packing up. After I finished, I also went to the vendor room. Ten Shin Orchids was there. They had a large quantity of unsold plants and there was this one guy packing their orchids. I came across this orchid. I asked him what kind of Dendrobium this plant was. He didn't know but encouraged me to go to their website. It did not have a tag, it was sitting in an empty tray, the last one. The label on this tray said Dendrobium "Magic Beans". I asked him if he can confirm that the label on the tray was its identity. He affirmed it was, adding that they started out with twenty four of this plant. I guess it was waiting for me to buy!

When I got home, I immediately looked up Ten Shin Orchids, but I could not find it mentioned anywhere on their website. So I did a general search for variegated dendrobiums, still no luck. I turn to this board. Anyone know what this is?

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I have no clue, sorry, but I love the color on the leaves, I have never seen Dendro leaves like this!

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Is yours a Mini?
I got this one last Year from them and they called it
a Den. Burana's Mini Beauty.It is not blooming right now
but it has the same Leafs and Flowers as yours does.
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Thank you Monika for posting your plant's pictures. It is a small Dendrobium. The flowers are very small and slightly fragrant. I'm going to see if I cannot get better clarification as to its variety name: "mini beauty" versus "Magic Beans". I kept the label that they were selling these plants under.

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The only variegated Dendrobium I have are the Japanese Dendrobium moniliforme. This plant is a little larger than a 'normal' Den. moniliforme. I'm glad I own it. With Monika sharing her plant. I think it is a Den. Burana.

Nice find! I like the color of the flowers and the leaves are really cool! That it is fragrant makes it a winner!

Great find!

Cant help with ID, but it looks lovely. :) Nice find.

Dendrobium "Magic Beans"
 

Fall into Winter this plant lost all of its leaves and I thought it was lost. But I kept it watered. Winter rolled into Spring. And then in April a little leaf peaked out of the base of the central stalk. In this picture, it is the largest central growth. Now there are other keiki growing.



I am pleased the plant is showing such lovely variegation and color. Since I acquired this plants, I have learned a lot more about Dendrobium and I have concluded it is a Dendrobium burana.



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Dendrobium 'Magic Beqns' by MattWoelfsen, on Flickr

Matt -- email Matt at Ten Shin...he's the owner and he'll be able to ID your plant.

He got sick last Fall and didn't make it over to Dayton (stuck in NYC) so a friend helped w/the sales table and plants. He's a wonderful friend to help out on such short notice...very sweet and helpful...but not the best source for orchid info. Matt has a great system for ID matching all those plants he's bringing into the country but not everyone else can understand that system so some of the process of putting names to the numbered orchids that weekend was really chaotic. Most worked out perfectly but there were a few that got jumbled. Some of my pre-order was part of that jumble. LOL!

Email Matt...w/pics of the plant/flower from last year and the new pics...I'm confident you'll get a definitive name on that gorgeous little den.

I have this plant; mine is labeled as Den. Burana 'Magic Beans'. Exact same behavior for mine; it shed all it's leaves in the winter and threw up new growth in late spring; the largest of which is about 2/3 of the size of the previous growths at this point. I am guessing, given the number of spent spikes on previous bulbs, that this behaves much like its bigibbum ancestor and will continue to bloom even on leafless backbulbs.
Adam