Get To Know What Kind Of Dendrobium Orchid

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Get To Know What Kind Of Dendrobium Orchid. For lovers of orchids, would have been familiar with the type of Orchid dendrobium. Dendrobium orchid species which are quite popular and endeared by orchid lovers. These are diligent types of Orchid flowers and do not fuss in terms of maintenance. In addition, dendrobium also have flowers that can survive long periods of even the blooms can reach more than two weeks. How to plant some fruits in a pot ?

The General Characteristics Of Dendrobium Orchids

Before we talk more, it's good we know beforehand the Orchid dendrobium ? Orchid dendrobium orchid is a kind of native Indonesia, living in the lowlands to the Highlands and is one of the largest orchid plant genera in the world. As for the Orchid dendrobium General description is as follows.

1. Dendrobium Orchid known in a variety of colors, shapes, and scents of the typical.
2. Easily crossed so that dendrobium is known by many species. Orchid dendrobium species estimated to be 1,600 species and will continue to grow.
3. the flower almost resembles a triangular Sepal and essentially forms the Spurs.
4. have the petal that is thinner than slabs of sepal and his lips hooves.
5. Life epipit or take on other plants to grow, but not to harm its host plant.
6. have a pseudo stem or pseudobulb.

Dendrobium Orchid types and Description

RE the Orchid dendrobium type subdividing Holttum as follows.

1. Diplocaulobium

Orchid plant type diplocaulobium is quite popular and widespread from Sumatra to Papua. Example species of dendrobium are included in this species, namely dendrobium malayanum. Diplocaulobium have physical description as follows.

• have a pseudo stem (pseudobulb) are slim, each with a size of 15-25 cm long.
• long-sized leaf is 12-14 cm and width reaches 2.4 cm.
• each pseudobulb has only one sheet of the leaves.
• nterest has a size of 3.5 cm in diameter and appear one by one, and sometimes in pairs.
• Interest consisting of sepal and petal that is yellow at the base, while the colored purple.

2. Desmotrichum

Dendrobium likes shady places such as swamp forest. In addition, examples of species that belong to this type dendrobium, dendrobium comatum is luxurians, dendrobium picatile, dendrobium kelsallii, dendrobium, dendrobium laciniasum, convexum and dendrobium xantholeucum. Desmotrichum plant descriptions are as follows.

• have a pseudobulb are far apart and the average size is shorter.
• Have the root and rhizome which extends on the lower layer media.
• Flowers last only 1-2 days and break easily.
• Flowers emerge from the spathe flower one by one.
• petal Colors are different on each species.

3. Sacopodium

• have a pseudobulb are short and pointed.
• Each pseudobulb has two strands of leaves.
• is not like other Orchid flowers are kind of out of the spathe flower type dendrobium, emerged one by one among the leaves.
• size of the petal shorter than sepal and lip three hooves.
• sacopodium is an example of d. longipes and d. macropodum.

4. Bolbidium

• the mini-sized (CA 10 cm), the pseudobulb appears to the top and two small leaves at the ends of the strands.
• Interest mini-sized (1-2 cm in diameter), white and beige colours, and decorated with pink veins.
• the narrow Petal lips with cloven in two.
• has five species, three of which namely d. pumilum, d., and d. striatellum procumbens.

5. Euphlebium

• plants reach 30 cm High.
• Stem consists of several sections.
• Leaf length ± 12 cm and width of ± 2 cm, ovoid or triangular-shaped and double decker.
• Interest out of the books of the trunk, under the leaves one by one.
• petal is white with beige coloured veined purple lips Brown and orange in the middle.
• examples of species euphlebium IE D. euphelebium.

6. Lataorea

• Pseudobulb beruas and it thickened up.
• the leaves upright and pierces the cover on the end of the pseudobulb.
• Flowers are large, greenish-colored, rough and hairy. In addition, lataorea has a short mentum with three hooves lips hang and black.
• consist of 30 to 35 species across Papua to Java, examples include d. spectabile and d. macrophyllum.

7. Callista

• thick Stems, and somewhat upright.
• type evergren Leaves and stiff.
• short flower Stalks but laden with flowers.
• Flowers appear in groups and hang down from the near end of the flower.
• Interest scented fragrance.
• Have sepal and petal lip is rather large, concave, rounded and does not have side slits.
• type of Orchid dendrobium callista is native to Burma.
• examples of species callista is d. agregatum, d. densiflorum, d. chrysotoxum, d. sulcatum, and others.

8. Eugenanthe

• Pseudobulb, thick, fleshy and grow upright or hanging.
• Flowers appearing in unison after the leaves fall out of sections of the stem.
• short flower Stalks
• sepal and Petal of the same size, the lip is not splitting, of the same size, and sometimes spherical concave.
• interest Color is different for each species.
• examples of eugenanthe species is d. pulchellum, d. parishii, d. nobile, d. hookerianum lituiflorum, d., d. cretaceum, and others.

9. Nigrohirsutae

• Pseudobulb grows erect, thick, and long.
• has a stem of Leaves covered in black feathers.
• the bunches of flowers only short, consisting of some of the petals of a flower.
• Flowers are generally white in color, but there are also some species that is green or yellowish Orange style.
• selindris-Mentum, lips don't part with a hairy hand hooves.
• consists of 45 species of them, namely d. lowii, d. cruentum formosum, d., and others.

10. Phalaenanthe

• have a pseudobulb that long and the base of the stem of a leaf covered did not develop.
• thick, fleshy Leaves and stiff.
• flower Bud c. Butterfly-shaped, large, and consists of a lot of flower petals in a single stalk.
• Generally purple or white flowers
• Example is affine d. phalaenanthe, d. phalaenopsis, and others.

11. Ceratobium

• the length of the trunk varies, the base thickened and thinned at the end.
• the fleshy, stiff Leaves, and large.
• form of the flower varies, some are shaped like horns, and some are star shaped.
• the Stalk of flowers are erect, growing length of the tip of the stem.
• in one sprig can contain 30 to 40 petals of a flower.
• of this type have 30 species, including d. sutiknoi, d. antennatum schulleri, d., d. lineale, and others.

12. Stachyobium

• Have a rather slim pseudobulb and thin-leaved.
• in the middle and upper parts of the pseudobulb, flower stalk arises.
• Have a pale yellow colored petal to greenish with lips three hooves.
• Species of this type is native to Burma and Thailand.
• examples of stachyobium are d. eriaeflorum and d. flavidulum.

13. Pedilonum

• Pseudobulb slimmer but still fleshy.
• the leaves grow from the stem's books.
• flower size is larger and has a variety of colors.
• the Stalk flowers appear on the stem sections simultaneously after the leafy plant does not anymore.
• Mentum length, a bit of tyre at the end with the lips and sometimes not hooves.
• pedilonum Example is d. secundum metrium, d., d. cornutum, d. roseatum, and others.

14. Distichophyllum

• Pseudobulb grows meeting, plans, and trim.
• short-sized Leaves (2-10 cm long, 0.5-2 cm wide), somewhat rounded, and grow meetings and arranged neatly.
• small-sized Flowers, grow your own or in a group, white, yellowish beige and pale orange.
• the Petal and sepal size is rather narrow, somewhat fleshy, lips and hooves.
• consist of eight species of which d. hosei uniflorum, d., d. methachilinum, d. pandaneti, and others.

15. Rhopalanthe

• one type of Orchid dendrobium Pseudobulb is a small-sized, somewhat fleshy, and the bottom covered with leaves.
• flat-shaped leaves are somewhat rounded.
• the interest out of the tip of the rod is not overgrown leaves.
• rhopalanthe Example is d. peculiare setifolium, d., and others.

16. Aporium

• Pseudobulb grows dense, short, and generally small-sized.
• thick and somewhat fleshy Leaves.
• Flowers are small and easy to fall, is white, greenish yellow, and there is also a silver-coloured Variant.
• aporium Example is d. rosellum, d. rhodostele, d. lobatum, and others.

17. Oxytophyllum

• the leaves out of the tip of the rod.
• Interest somewhat thick-textured, yellowish, narrow-lipped and not hooves.
• oxytophyllum Example is d. sinuatum carnosum, d., and d. exavatum.

18. Stongile

• small, part of the base of the Pseudobulb fleshy and not the end of the leaf.
• round-shaped leaves elongated.
• small-sized Flowers.
• stongile Example is d. singaporense, d. subalatum, d. flexile, and others.

19. Grastidum

• the Pseudobulb are small, slim and long.
• the leaves resemble grass.
• small-sized Flowers with short mentum.
• grastidum Example is d. pensile, d. salaccense, and d. indragiriense.

20. Conostalix

• the Pseudobulb are small and a bit chewy.
• Leaf has the spathe opens.
• the size of small flowers, pale color, and appear in pairs.
• Flowers emerge from the stem sections still leafy.
• conostalix Example is d. melanochlamys, d. lobii, and d. pachyglossum.

Twenty types of dendrobium orchids are increasingly convincing us that orchids are ornamental plants which are rich in species diversity. Hopefully this information can increase your knowledge about the type of Orchid dendrobium.

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