Dendrobium chrysotoxum

Golden-bow dendrobium

Dendrobium chrysotoxum is a warm-growing epiphytic orchid of monsoon Southeast Asia, with club-shaped, ridged golden pseudobulbs and arching sprays of bright yellow flowers with a fringed orange lip in spring. It lives on trees in open deciduous and oak woodland and on small trees on limestone hills, where summers are hot and wet and winters are cool, bright and dry. The dry winter rest is the key to flowering in cultivation.

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

Epiphyte on trunks and branches of trees in open, seasonally dry forest, oak woodland and scrub on limestone hills. Herbarium labels record it on trees in forest, in oak woods and on small trees on rocky limestone hills.

Recorded from 46 to 1221 m in our GBIF sample (median about 850 m); most plants grow at lower-middle elevations in monsoon hill forest.

AssamBangladeshCambodiaChina South-CentralEast HimalayaLaosMyanmarThailandVietnam

🔒 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.