Dendrobium aphrodite

"Dendrobium aphrodite Rchb.f. is native to Tennasserim range in Myanmar and Thailand. It grows in the top of the tallest trees at elevations around 1400 m above sea level."

Dendrobium aphrodite Rchb.f., Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 20: 246 (1862).

Dendrobium aphrodite Rchb.f., Photo byJackie Lee

its native range is Myanmar. 

Latin Name: 

Dendrobium aphrodite Rchb.f.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Callista aphrodite (Rchb.f.) Kuntze

Dendrobium nodatum Lindl.

English Name:

The Beautiful Dendrobium (Aphrodite Greek goddess of Love and Beauty therefore beautiful).

Description: 

With slender, branching, suberect stems that are strongly swollen at the nodes carrying a few, oblong-obtuse, decidouous leaves flowering in the spring on an axillary, few (1 to 2) flowered inflorescence with delicately fragrant flowers that arises from the upper leaf nodes of leafless canes and can produce for several seasons, occuring from March through May but only if given a very dry and cool winter rest until the buds appear and then water and fertilize heavily.

Distribution:

Myanmar.

Ecological:

Found in the top of the tallest trees at elevations around 1400 m as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Bloome from March through May.

Flower size:

7.5 cm

Cultivation:

Light: 

Bright (filtered)

Temperature: 

Cool to Intermediate

Watering: 

Moist while active, Cool & dry winter rest

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/626815-1

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:626815-1

- http://www.orchidspecies.com/denaphrodite.htm. 

- https://travaldo.blogspot.com/2019/06/dendrobium-aphrodite-care-and-culture.html