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Orchid Species: Dendrobium nobile

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Dendrobium nobile is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1830.
Genus
Dendrobium (Den.)
Grex
nobile
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
Lindl.
Year
1830
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ORIGIN: From the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam that is found in broadleaf, evergreen, lowland forests and primary montane forests as well as on mossy limestone rocks at elevations of 200 to 2000 meters.

DESCRIPTION: This is a medium sized, cool to hot growing terrestrial or lithophytic species with erect, clustered, compressed, grooved with age, yellowish stems carrying distichous, coriaceopus, strap shaped or oblong, persistent leaves that blooms mostly in the winter and spring but is possible throughout the year on short, 2 to 4 flowered racemes with fragrant, waxy, heavy-textured, long-lived, highly variable [mostly color] flowers that arise at the upper nodes of leafed and leafless canes.

FLOWER SIZE: To 3 inches [to 7.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Dendrobium Den chlorostylum 1950 Gagnep.
Add+ Dendrobium Den wallichianum 1862 B.S.Williams
Add+ Callista Callista nobilis 1891 (Lindl.) Kuntze
Add+ Dendrobium Den coerulescens 1838 Wall. ex Lindl.
Add+ Dendrobium Den formosanum 1933 (Rchb.f.) Masam.
Add+ Dendrobium Den lindleyanum 1851 Griff.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Den. nobile 'Medin' (3 awards from 2015 to 2018) Den. nobile 'Oroville' (3 awards from 1966 to 1999) Den. nobile h.v. cooksonianum 'Schanz' (2 awards in 2018) Den. nobile 'Jean' (2 awards in 2013) Den. nobile h.v. virginalis 'Lenore' (2 awards from 1991 to 2000) Den. nobile h.f. album 'Old Mill' (2 awards in 1998) Den. nobile 'Großräschen' (2016) Den. nobile 'Dresden' (2015) Den. nobile 'Fort Allen' (2014) Den. nobile 'Lisa' (2012) Den. nobile 'Woodlands' (2012) Den. nobile 'Elm' (2012) Den. nobile 'Nueva Era' (2009) Den. nobile 'Jardin botanique de Montreal' (2008) Den. nobile 'Audry Kompter' (2008) Den. nobile 'Audrey Kompter' (2006) Den. nobile 'Memoria Knowlton Hall' (2006) Den. nobile 'Jesulin' (2005) Den. nobile 'Raspberry Falls' (2003) Den. nobile h.f. alba 'Jeanne' (2002)
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DENDROBIUM NOBILE: Culture of a Problem Type by Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler). Provide plenty of sunlight summer to fall; maintain low temperature when in bud, below 55 deg. F.; provide nitrogen spring and early summer, phosphorous and potassium summer and fall; plant in ungl... 0
DENDROBIUM NOBILE: To Stimulate Flowering by Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler). After growth matures keep dry but prevent excessive dehydration; keep cool, as low as 40 deg.F which does no harm; hang them exposed to cool night air. F74-165 0
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