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Dendrobium hookerianum

An eastern Himalayan Dendrobium related to D. fimbriatum, with long pendulous canes and golden-yellow flowers with a fringed lip marked by two dark blotches. It comes from mid-elevation forest with a warm, very wet monsoon summer and a cool, dry winter, and it flowers best when that dry winter is copied.

Dendrobium hookerianum
Photo: Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892) del. et lith. Description by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817—1911), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Cool-growingTargets 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 on trees, and sometimes on rocks, in broadleaved forest of the eastern Himalaya and adjacent Yunnan and Myanmar. Detailed microhabitat notes were not available in the sources we could open.

GBIF records with an elevation mostly fall between about 1100 and 2300 m, with a median of about 1600 m. One record at 6000 m is clearly an error.

NepalBhutanNortheast IndiaBangladeshTibetYunnanMyanmar

🔒 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 Public domain licence, unmodified.