Dendrobium fleckerii

[Dorsetman]

Those in the know about Dendroboiums will immediately recognise this as a typical Section Dendrocoryne species -like e.g. kingianum. Needs similar treatment - months of dry and prefereably chilly weather to flower. Quite tough and long-ish lasting flowers. A trick I have learnt about this, is to tie up the canes before the start of that drying and chilling, otherwise they tend to arch as they dry giving a difficult tying up job afterwards. The canes are much thinner than kingianum, tallee too, and the flowers larger ( slightly).
Like other Dendrocorynes it has the delightful habit of flowering for several years in succession from the same canes. From Queensland, where, per IOSPE, a short-caned form (10cm ) grows on rocks in full sun, and a long caned form ( mine are say 30-40cm ) grows in deep shade in moist forest. Maybe thats why it is so easy in cultivation - if it can't remember how tall it is ..... (joke)

[Chris in Hamilton]

That is a great colour! The smaller one would be of more interest to me simply because it is.

[Sheryl]

Very lovely Geoff!

[wolf71758]

Beautiful. Is it as fragrant as a kingianum?
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[ksriramkumar]

Beauty in deed Geoff. I always look fwd to reading the commentary in your post and off course the flowers.

[catttan]

Beautiful and great colour!

[JDT]

Amazing colors in that one, beautiful!