Dendrobium palpebrae

[Dorsetman]

Another of the Section densiflora species. Quite difficult to tell apart, some of them. This is said ( in "the books") to be very similar to farmeri , but actually the plant , apart from the flower, is rather different from the farmeri plants I have grown or seen in the wild. And no trace of pink in the flowers either. But palpebrae - which means "eyelash" according to IOSPE , has longer hairs on the lip - so my second pic is an unltra close up, to show these - unfortunately I haven't got a farmeri out at the moment, when I next do, I will try and take a similar pic to compare.
Not very long lasting flowers, here , and not too large either, in fact distinctly smaller than my farmeri ones. Maybe my palpebrae is not a good example.
And as a digression, does anyone know how to turn off predictive typing in this app , on a Mac ? It drives me mad, trying to turn botanical latin into more familar words..

[Sheryl]

It's just lovely! And yes, I've seen many posted here lately that are very similar. Have you gone into your browser settings to see about turning off the predictive typing?

[Dorsetman]

It's just lovely! And yes, I've seen many posted here lately that are very similar. Have you gone into your browser settings to see about turning off the predictive typing?

I have turned off predictive typing, but it just seems to stay turned on for this app - and I don’t notice it anywhere else.
I assume it’s some feature of the programme.

[Brutal_Dreamer]

It is a lovely display, Geoff! (I'm guessing the predictive typing is in your browser settings.)

cheers,
BD

[zainal abidin]

I agree with the above very beautiful.