Dendrobium fimbriatum
A large cane Dendrobium from the monsoon forests of the Himalaya, southern China and northern Indochina. Its long, leafy canes carry hanging sprays of bright orange-yellow flowers with a finely fringed lip, often with a dark maroon blotch (var. oculatum). It grows on trees and damp rocks from lowland to lower-montane forest, and it expects a hot, wet summer followed by a cooler, drier winter.
Where it grows wild
It grows on tree trunks and branches in dense or open forest, and on damp rocks and cliffs in mountain valleys. Labels record it on shaded branches in evergreen hardwood forest in northern Thailand, in partly shaded deciduous dipterocarp–oak forest, in bamboo and mixed deciduous forest, and on bare rock outcrops alongside Dendrobium nobile and Thunia in Chin State, Myanmar. It is common in Assam.
Wild records run from about 200 m to 1,830 m, with a median of about 1,100 m. One record at 4,000 m is implausible.
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