Dendrobium elliotianum

Dendrobium elliotianumMature, mounted blooming size plants. We imported these plants 6 months ago but held on to them to ensure they were healthy and strong (they are!). These plants have flowered at the nursery and are currently producing new leaves, pseudobulbs, and roots. Small is an understatement when describing this species! These mature plants measure 1 2" top to bottom and produce tightly packed pseudobulbs with skinny leaves that are about 1 long at maturity.

First two blooms pictured

Fun fact: Leptotes bicolor flowers and fruits are used as a vanilla substitute in certain culinary applications

shade to indirect light

translucent flowers

Flowers in the summer with as many as 20 quarter-dollar-sized flowers emerging at the top of the leaf and resting on the leaf

cylindrical leaves are reminiscent of a succulent and are spaced very closely together

This flask was treated with colchicine to promote tetraploidy (4n) which produces larger

Flowers multiple times a year

This species likes cool-intermediate temps

Beautiful semi-peloric flowers

Miniature orchid species Mediocalcar decoratum

they also produce new growth at the base of the plant