Dendrobium cunninghamii
Winika, also called the Christmas or bamboo orchid, is a New Zealand endemic that forms tangled clumps up to 2 m across of thin, cane-like stems up to 1 m long. It flowers from December into autumn with small white flowers marked with rose, purple and green on the lip. It is a genuinely cool, temperate-rainforest epiphyte, so it struggles in warm homes and does best somewhere cool, bright-shaded and humid.
Where it grows wild
It grows on the trunks and branches of forest trees, from the coast into the mountains. It also grows on fallen logs, rocks, cliff faces and banks, and sometimes on brick or concrete walls. It favours semi-shade in moist, temperate rainforest.
Few records carry an elevation. NZPCN describes it as coastal to montane, from sea level into cool mountain forest.
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