Please identify

[elissamiranda]

Hello!!! Hope everyone is doing ok...

My mother-in-law gave this orchid that she can't get to flower so that I can try it. She told me that it was a den. Could someone please tell me which type it is so I can look up specific growing conditions?



Thanks,
Lisa

[clintdawley]

That would be a dendrobium of the latouria section.

[elissamiranda]

wow thanks for the quick reply!!! =)

[clintdawley]

More specifically. It looks like either D. abberans or D. johnsoniae possibly.

[elissamiranda]

the only info that I could find was to keep moist all year. Do you know any good reading material?

thanks

[clintdawley]

Can't recommend any good books, but you can google "latouria dendrobium culture"

the only info that I could find was to keep moist all year. Do you know any good reading material?

thanks

[Brutal_Dreamer]

Have you seen this thread about dendrobiums that Murray posted? WHAT KIND OF DENDROBIUMS DO I HAVE

Cheers,
BD

[Ron-NY]

It doesn't look like D. abberans to me...It looks likle Dend lindleyii (aggregatum)

[zainal abidin]

I agree with Ron, Den aggregatum,if I am not mistaken our friend from Vietnam Mr Culan has a wonderful photos on this species with yellow flowers, please go to his thread.

[f_fabrizio]

Hi elissamiranda,

to me it seems a Dendrobium lindleyi ( syn Dendrobium aggregatum) or a Dendrobium jenkinsii (Syn Dendrobium aggregatum var jenkinsii).
Both plants are really similar, very different flower, take a look at this link :

IOSPE PHOTOS
IOSPE PHOTOS

this is mine now




first photo to understand dimension and second to let you see stems on a jenkinsii, flower are held one by one, dend lindley has a few flowered inflorescence, both should be fragrant.
Both of them need a dry, cool, quite long (at least 2-3 months) and if possible full shine rest during winter otherwise will not flower.
Anyhow I have not kept it completely dry, al least once a week I sprayed it.
Mine was with cool dendro with t min during night around 10 C.
This is a small trick I have used this year for the first time after 2 years full of vegetation but no flower, (seems it works, I have many many stems, let's hope it will flower), when it has started with new root I brought it in my office, lot of light (but less then before, no full sun) and high t (18 night 22-24 day), in a short time it is covered with floser stems)
If you can mount it on a cork, I have used a mangrovia roots (one used for aquarium), it grows quickly, I place 5-6 pseudos on that piece in 2007 and it almost cover all the piece in 2 years.

Fabrizio