Wow! Really like this dendrobium! Very nice!
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Had this a short while. Came from a mates collection. Nearly acclimatised to my conditions. Spikes damped off last year but ok now. Plant is improving all the time.
Wow! Really like this dendrobium! Very nice!
Really love this one!…
I saw lots of this in Thailand when I spent a couple of weeks in various National Parks etc last year, and have been looking to get one ever since. Seems to be generally unavailable in Europe, although I know that some of the South American orchid people are starting to raise a lot of Asian orchids from seed and offer them for sale.
I must look around - collecting new orchids after Brexit day is going to be very difficult in UK because our CITES system demands a separate application - at about US$ 90 for each genus, which makes it difficult even for the few orchid traders we have left - all the famous names from the past have gone....only one trader left doing enough business to actually employ anyone - pretty well all my purchases have been from traders outside UK for quite a few years now. Maybe that makes my collection more valuable ? Or more likely less so, since who will be able to start collecting from scratch without dealers.....
Love those 2 eyes staring at you.
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Very nice! They can get big, so be warned.
Mine was just over 5 1/2 feet when I gave it away because it was just too big. I went and bought a Den. Gatton Sunray, which is similar but smaller. I think that half of the Den. Gatton Sunray parentage is Den. pulchellum.
Yes it is 1/2 pulchellum & can grow to excessive size. I'll post a pic of my plant in flower tomorrow. If you are growing it coolish like I am & always have, it flowers nearly as good as in heat but has strong short canes, easily managed.
I never saw canes more than 2 feet long in the wild, and maybe 3 feet growing in gardens in Thailand.
I've only seen a couple of plants of pulchellum in person & about the size you say Geoff. Gatton Sunray over 2 meters/6 feet +. The other parent must grow well then.