Dendrobium christyanum

I brought this in in March of this year from Hengduan. I really love this plant. I couldn’t remember christyanum but could recall margaritaceum, so I looked up on the orchid species encyclopedia and saw Holger had submitted a picture and you know, carry the two; this should be of closely related genotype.

However, on Jay’s site there is a picture of flowering plant with long skinny canes. I accept there is some phenotypic plasticity but I maintain that is almost species level differences. I haven’t compared the keel or looked at my Lavarack book yet to say it’s a or b.

At any rate, I’m impressed by its floral entrance into my collection. It’s growing on a rotating rack above my Masevallia, cuthbertsonii, coccinea type stuff.