Dendrobium crepidatum
A deciduous epiphytic dendrobium from southern China, the eastern Himalayas and northern Indochina, known as the shoe-lipped dendrobium. Its pendulous, waxy canes flower from the leafless nodes in late winter and spring, with pink-flushed white flowers and a yellow-centred lip. The key to flowering it is a warm, wet summer followed by a cool, bright, dry winter.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte on trees in monsoonal forest in the Himalayan foothills and the hills of northern Indochina, hanging from branches where it gets bright light and good air movement.
It grows in the hills and lower mountains of its range, generally in the order of several hundred to about 1,800 m, where winters are cool.
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