Dendrobium chrysanthum

golden yellow-flowered dendrobium

A large Himalayan and Indochinese Dendrobium with pendulous canes up to 1.5 m that carry 1–3 fragrant golden flowers per node from spring into autumn, alongside the leaves. It grows in humid mossy and mixed forest from about 350 to 2200 m under a monsoon climate, and it needs a cooler, drier winter rest to flower well. Grow it hanging so the canes can trail, with warm wet summers and a cool, dryish winter.

Dendrobium chrysanthum — Photo: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

At home, aim for

Day IntermediateTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Ordinary room humidityBand in Plantistry

Light Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

Expects a seasonal restGrows on trees (epiphyte)

Where it grows wild

An epiphyte in humid, mossy, mixed broadleaf and coniferous forests and in primary evergreen forest, also growing as a lithophyte in narrow crevices on limestone cliffs and occasionally terrestrially. The long canes hang down from branches or rock faces.

Reported from 350 to 2200 m. GBIF records with an elevation run from 250 to 2050 m, median about 1100 m, so most plants are intermediate-temperature montane growers.

NepalBhutanIndia (Sikkim, Assam)MyanmarThailandLaosVietnamChina (Guangxi, Guizhou, Tibet, Yunnan)

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates

✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it

✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light

✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it

✓ Substrate and airflow

✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 3.0 licence, unmodified.