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Orchid Species: Dendrobium victoriae-reginae
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium victoriae-reginae is an orchid species identified by Loher in 1897.
ORIGIN: Found in the Philippines in dense, mossy forests with oaks, rhododendrons and azaleas at an elevation of 1300 to 2700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to large sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte always growing with it's roots in moss, deep shade and with plenty of air movement and have pendulous, basally branching, nodaly swollen stems enveloped by persistent sheaths and carrying to 12, oblong or lanceolate, papery, acute to acuminate leaves. They need to be kept evenly humid and moist throughout the year and bloom almost at any time but the strongest bloom is in May-June on very short, erect, 1 to 3 flowered racemes with paleaceous, oblong, acute bracts and color variable flowers that do not open well occurring in clusters that arise from the older leafless canes.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 or more inches [2.5 cm or more]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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