Orchid Encyclopedia

A Dendrobium from north-eastern Australia with arching sprays of up to 20 rounded lilac-purple flowers. Known as the Cooktown orchid, it is the species behind the Den-Phal hybrids.

A Dendrobium with vivid golden flower clusters and sweet honey-like fragrance.

Australia's largest Dendrobium, spectacular with many long flower spikes from massive plants.

A cluster-flowering Dendrobium packed with pale yellow flowers with golden lips on hanging sprays. Its stems are square in section; it is robust, though the flowers last only about a week.

A cluster-flowering Dendrobium that hangs sprays of up to 30 or more flowers with pale lilac to white petals and a yellow-centred lip. Its stems swell only near the top and are diamond-shaped in cross-section.

A tiny Dendrobium with clusters of small flattened pseudobulbs. In early spring, one to five honey-scented yellow flowers appear beside each thick single leaf. It is usually sold mounted on cork.

The species behind the nobile-type Dendrobium hybrids. Upright, yellowish canes carry fragrant, waxy flowers in twos to fours at the nodes, ranging in colour from white to pink and purple.

A medium-sized Dendrobium bearing purple-pink flowers in twos and threes at the nodes of leafless canes, long-lasting and scented of rhubarb or raspberry.

A cluster-flowering Dendrobium that hangs dense sprays about 30 cm long of 30-50 flowers with white petals and a deep yellow lip; the pinecone-like cluster gives its English name.

A Dendrobium whose canes hang to over a metre and, once leafless, bloom at every node with large purple flowers. Despite a name meaning unscented, it has a strong raspberry-like fragrance.