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Dendrobium bullenianum

Dendrobium bullenianum
Photo: Raabbustamante, CC BY-SA 3.0

Dendrobium bullenianum is a pendulous, pseudobulbous epiphytic orchid from the Philippines and Vietnam, grown for its hanging stems and flowers. Give it bright light, a loose epiphytic mix and a clear dry rest period to flower reliably.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Epiphyte, Orchid
Light
Bright indirect
Water
Water thoroughly when the mix dries, reduce water while the plant is leafless, and avoid soggy roots.
Soil
Loose epiphytic mix of bark or sphagnum, or mounted on cork or wood.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 12 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Philippines
Climate
wet tropical

About

Dendrobium bullenianum is a member of the family Orchidaceae found in the Philippines and Vietnam. It is named in honor of Mr. Bullen, orchid cultivator with Low & Co.'s nursery, who was first in Britain get this species to flower in cultivation. It is pendulous and sympodial with 1 meter long pseudobulbs of 1.5 cm thickness and deciduous leaves of 10 cm by 1.5 cm. Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach was the first to describe this species in 1862 in Botanische Zeitung. It is found as an epiphyte in elevations up to 1,000 metres in Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines.

Other Dendrobium plants

Slender Cane Orchid · Dendrobium aduncum · Ironbark orchid · White butterfly orchid · Buttercup orchid · Dendrobium albosanguineum · Dendrobium amabile · Dendrobium amboinense · Amethyst-colored Dendrobium · Dendrobium amplum · Dendrobium angulatum · Unscented Dendrobium

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dendrobium bullenianum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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