Dendrobium pentapterum is another Oxyglossum Dendrobium from New Guinea. The plant is 10 cm tall with 3 cm pale green flowers that have an bright orange tip to the lip. Its most remarkable feature however, is its floriferousness. It has as many as four flowers at a time from each growth that last up to six months and it continues to bloom from the older growths over many years. My plant at present is in an 8 cm clay pot and has over 80 flowers on, so crowded that it is hard to see where one ends and another begins. I had thought about taking it in for judging but discovered that another plant had been awarded with 170 flower, mine not even having half that amount.
December 20, 2012
Dendrobium pentapterum
Label:
dendrobium,
dendrobium pentapterum,
new guinea,
orchid,
oxyglossum
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