samedi 20 octobre 2012

dendrobium porphyrochilum


I'm excited! I thought that I killed this orchid (no more leaf) but it seems that she will have flowers soon....
I'm waiting...

October 20, 2012; Hanging garden
shade, cool, spring
Found in the western Himalayas, Chinese Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanamar, Thailand and Vietnam on trees in forests grazed by cattle at elevations of 1850 to 2350 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with attenuate, cylindric-conical, slender yellowish pseudobulbs enveloped by imbricating, membraneous, striate sheaths and carrying 3 to 4, linear-oblong to obliquely emarginate, sessile, jointed leaves that blooms in the spring on a termianl, slender, solitary, pendant, slightly frractiflex, glabrous, 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence with glabrous basal sheaths