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Orchid Species: Dendrobium ochreatum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium ochreatum is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in 1835.
ORIGIN: Found in Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam in humid, mossy mixed and coniferous forests at elevations of 1200 to 1600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte, terrestrial or lithophyte and has short, drooping, curved, swollen noded stems with red streaks and spots carrying 15, ovate-lanceolate, thin, deciduous leaves and blooms in the winter, spring summer and fall on many very short, simultaneous inflorescence that arise from every node of the newly formed stem and has 1 to 3, fragrant, long-lived, pubescent lipped flowers per inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 2 to 2.8 inches [5 to 7 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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