Dendrobium vexillarius is a high altitude miniature species from Papua New Guinea. It is variable both in plant size and in flower color, producing flowers in a rainbow of colors on plants that are even smaller than this or four to five times as large. My plant is 8cm tall. The unusually colored flowers are 3 cm and last for many months. They are produced at the end of the older pseudobulbs, often after the leaves have fallen off, and are usually two or three to each growth.
Lovely photography! The petals remind me of rice paper.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Rena. They are actually thick and plastic-like.
DeleteAnother spectacular beauty
ReplyDeleteThanks again, Beatriz. Much appreciated.
Deletevery nice Ron! looks like you've grown this clump for many years... do you know if its a seed-raised plant?
ReplyDeleteIt is, Laurent. I got it as a tiny seedling from Equatorial.
DeleteSo congratulations for bringing it to this size! I've fair to good results with the deep red-orange forms, but that type, I've just slowly killed them in the course of 5 years or so...
DeleteThanks, Laurent. Much appreciated.
DeleteIs this considered a clone of the "red" form? There seem to be several different color forms of this species, which I find curious.
ReplyDeleteThis species comes in a rainbow of colors, Josh, and this is not the "red" form - that much more red than this is. This is a pretty clear orange.
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