Need help with IDs for old and new Dendrobiums - Orchid Board

JC Espinosa · #1 10-06-2013, 11:21 AM

I need help from the OB community to ID some Dens. I have approximately 50 NOID Dendrobiums - lost tags, gifts, rescues, garage sales, etc. I have been updating their tags as they flower finding that it is impossible to ID all of the many hybrids out there. The numbered tag stays "224 - Dendrobium," and it stays on the Excel sheet and as a full citizen of the garden.

(1) An old HD plant flowering for the second time this year. It is growing on a podocarpus. We call it the Tree of Death because I mount sickly hybrids there and hope for the best. Think grandma on the ice floe. Only three fatalities in ten years - all Phals.

(2 - 3) Looks like a gouldii hybrid with beautiful purplish, brownish color. Picked up the large plant for $20 from a roadside vendor yesterday.

(4 - 5) This one was $20 from the same vendor with seven spikes just beginning to open. Also a spatulate hybrid? This one had a tag that read "D. raspberry."

WhiteRabbit · #2 10-06-2013, 09:43 PM

Good luck!

Aussie42 · #3 10-07-2013, 07:21 AM

Dang. I thought number 4/5 reminded me of something, but after tracking the name of it down it's not that similar. It was D. tangerinum I was thinking about, not that it will help much.

Cheers,
Aus.

pipsxlch · #4 10-08-2013, 08:31 PM

Den #1- color reminds me of Ekapol Panda, though I'm not into phal types/intermediates so don't own that for comparison.
Den #2- I'd be willing to bet is antennatum x. Blue Twinkle- I own that one, it's blooming right now for easy comparison, and it's a dead ringer. I'll post a pic in the 'Antelope' thread as soon as I can if I haven't already can't remember. Congratulations- good price and I love mine!
Den #3- I'm pretty sure it's a discolor hybrid, the color, and form of the sepals say that to me. Don't know further than that. In that 'Antelopes' thread, I did post some pics recently of a discolor primary hybrid I had blooming, it's not the same as yours but see what you think to me very similar (also look up D. discolor online; don't think yours is pure but once again see the similarity).
Edit to add have you tried to find den hybrids with "Raspberry' in their names? I don't have Orchidwiz, or I'd look.