Dendrobium speciosum

[Babybloomer]

In August 2020 on my driveway.

 

[Babybloomer]

A nice speciosum hybrid, Dendrobium Australian Artist plus a few more


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[DrLeslieEe]

That driveway speciosum is incredible! One plant?

How many flower spikes you reckon?

Outdoors near Sydney too. Guess it can tolerate the occasional frost/snow?

 

[Babybloomer]

Actually a few plants planted at the same time, all the same cross. ' Mount Larcom Gold' x self. Tallest canes about 1metre. We are almost beach-side. Rarely gets below about 8C deg. Speciosum will handle down to 0 but any lower and it gets frost burn

 

[DrLeslieEe]

Very impressive indeed.

 

[SouthPark]

That is so wonderful, and spectacular. I think I can 'grow' that sort of orchid here in the tropics ....... but ..... unfortunately, would most likely never see them/it flower hahaha ........ as I hear they require a long period of cold ...... and/or repeated cycling of significant temperature drops ----- to initiate spiking activity, right?

I really like the various outcomes of Australian Artist a lot.

 

[h_mossy]

Beautiful, and very eye-catching.
Tkx for sharing.

 

[Djthomp28]

Wonderingful!!

 

[monocotman]

Amazing!

 

[Ozpaph]

very well flowered

 

[emydura]

Amazing display Richard. They all look to be butter yellow. Are none golden yellow like the parent?

 

[emydura]

That

Outdoors near Sydney too. Guess it can tolerate the occasional frost/snow?

Doesn't snow in Sydney very often. You can get frost in western Sydney but speciosum can handle a light frost. This species can be naturally found all around Sydney and continues south into Victoria. It is called by some as the Sydney Rock Orchid.

 

[Berthold]

My Dendrobium speciosum

 

[DrLeslieEe]

My Dendrobium speciosum

Wow! Great specimen species!

 

[Berthold]

Wow! Great specimen species!

It's not mine of course but its about my age. But I think the plant won't die soon, as BrucherT thinks of me.

 

[Babybloomer]

They all look to be butter yellow. Are none golden yellow like the parent?

Hi David, I think the work 'Gold' in the name of many of the wild collected clones is a bit of poetic license. When it was collected it probably was considered gold but not any more by today's standards

 

[Guldal]

All very nice - and that speciosum in your drive way ought to be renamed as 'impressiosum'!

 

[BrucherT]

It's not mine of course but its about my age. But I think the plant won't die soon, as BrucherT thinks of me.

Won’t be my fault. Maybe you’ll live longer if you start caring about polar bears.

 

[Berthold]

Maybe you’ll live longer if you start caring about polar bears.

No, I'd rather get into the drug business in Detroit, there is less chance of getting killed

 

[Berthold]

Here my bonsai Dendrobium speciosum. It is a rare dwarf subspecies that is still completely unknown in Australia.
Mother,
child