help IDing plant i thought had a tag - Orchid Board

Shugz · #1 05-02-2015, 12:02 PM

I thought I had purchasewd this with an id tag but after getting it home with the other the tag was missing, can anyone help ID this purple and orange curly flower.

silken · #2 05-02-2015, 12:57 PM

A Dendrobium for sure. I think they call them antelope Dens??

pipsxlch · #3 05-02-2015, 07:26 PM

I WANT!!!!! lol
It's an antelope dendrobium, there are lots of hybrids so really can't guess closer than that. They're hard to find in the US though.
Can you contact the vendor and see if they can identify it for you? Unfortunately, if it's a big box or non specialist vendor, you're probably out of luck.

Shugz · #4 05-02-2015, 09:59 PM

I do not remember what vendor I got it from since there was 3 or 4 different ones at the greenthumb festival I got it at. the plant is over 3 feet tall and was the only one I believe so It could be fairly easy to contact them and ask. im going to make sure I don't leave the next shopping trip to The Redlands international orchid festival without all the name tags.. Orchid Show first time going. I cannot wait !!!

JDT · #5 05-02-2015, 10:38 PM

I would tend to agree with silken and pipsxich that it is an antelope Dendrobium which species is hard to tell if it is a hybrid.

You will not be disappointed at Redland, it is the one everyone in South Florida looks forward too, 60 vendors. This will be my 8th year going to this one, it is our last major orchid fair of the season, my wallet is probably very happy, by then it might hurt again when I have to pay for shipping for orchids from the end of this fair till November when they start again.

Shugz · #6 05-03-2015, 12:46 PM

so what makes it a antelope den. is my den. tangerinum also considered an antelope den. ?

silken · #7 05-03-2015, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Shugz

so what makes it a antelope den. is my den. tangerinum also considered an antelope den. ?

Yes, this is an antelope Den as well. The raised twisted petals make it an antelope Den. I guess like antelope horns-sort of.

Shugz · #8 05-03-2015, 01:05 PM

so I did good on my last venture if they are rare to find in the U.S. like Pipsxlch said.

silken · #9 05-03-2015, 01:18 PM

I would grab one too if I could get one, so long as it wasn't huge. But I haven't seen too many around here in Canada either. Lucky you

Shugz · #10 05-03-2015, 01:56 PM

yeah the purple and orange noID one is huge, over 3 ft tall, the other one I mentioned in pretty small at the moment in a 3 in pot. I was debating on getting the den. tangerinum or a den. spectabile that was in flower and desided to go with the tangerinum since I already have a spectabile that I recently got at Lowes that is pretty small, but has shwn lots of growth since I got it right as the winter "dry season" was ending and been giving it plenty of water. geez I cant wait for Redlands but the day before my orchid meeting group is having a meeting and the guest speaker is bring a lot of cattleya species I want to get as well. don't know if I should just save my money for the very next day or spend it on the ones I know hes going to be bringing to the meeting. I just started growing/collecting orchids since Aug 2014 and boy ive got "the fever"