Dendrobium neospectabile
A large Australian king orchid, formerly Thelychiton spectabilis. It has cane-like yellowish-green pseudobulbs 20–60 cm long and sprays of 150–250 cream to pale yellow flowers with reddish-purple streaks on the lip, from August to October. It is known only from the mountains in and around Eungella National Park in central Queensland, so it wants a cool, misty, bright subtropical-montane regime rather than lowland tropical heat.
Where it grows wild
It grows on rainforest trees and on rocks, in sheltered spots in open forest and in tall rainforest, sometimes on cliff faces. The Eungella plateau is a cloud-prone range where mesophyll and notophyll rainforest meets tall eucalypt forest.
No wild records with an elevation were available. The Eungella plateau and the Clarke Range reach 1259 m, and the rainforest where it grows lies mostly on the range and plateau, roughly 500–1200 m.
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