Betau Valley

Betau Valley

Monday, 6 October 2014

Jewel from my garden: Dendrobium leonis

This tiny orchid grows as an epiphyte and sometimes lithophyte in the wild. I had a small specimen collected from a boulder a few years back and now it has grown to a nice clump on a wooden support. It tends to flower scarcely, depending on temperature fluctuation but also it has to grow to a certain length before flowering (at the tip of the stalk). The reward is a very sweet vanilla perfume in the air in the morning when you are in your garden...






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