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Dendrobium dartoisianum is an orchid species identified by De Wild. in 1906. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium tortile.
ORIGIN: Found in Assam India, Bangladesh, Andaman Islands, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam at elevations around 1220 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, cool, ascending to pendant growing epiphyte, terrestrial or lithophyte with club to spindle shaped, grooved and medially flattened stems with tubular leaf sheaths carrying 3 to 4, thin, deciduous, curved, leathery, sharply pointed leaves that blooms on an axillary, 1.6 to 3.1 [4 to 8 cm] long, few [2 to 3] flowered inflorescence arising from the upper leaf axils of leafless canes carrying longlasting, fragrant flowers occurring in the late winter and early summer. Water and fertilizer should be drastically reduced in the winter months and resumed with the onset of new growth in the spring.
FLOWER SIZE: 2.8 to 3.1 inches [7 to 8 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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