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Honey orchid

Dendrobium pruinosum

Honey orchid
Photo: Lewis Roberts, CC BY-SA 3.0

Dendrobium pruinosum, the honey orchid, is a pseudobulbous epiphyte from wet tropical rainforest that grows on trees and rocks. It needs bright, humid conditions and a mount or fast-draining mix that dries between waterings.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Epiphyte, Orchid
Light
Bright indirect, Part shade
Water
Water regularly during growth, letting the top of the medium or mount dry slightly between waterings, and reduce in the cooler season.
Soil
Fast-draining epiphytic mix of bark or tree fern, or mount on cork or a slab.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 12 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Maluku (Ambon) to Bismarck Arch.
Climate
wet tropical

About

Dendrobium pruinosum, commonly known as the honey orchid, is an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid in the family Orchidaceae and has flattened, yellowish stems and pairs of cream coloured, dull yellow or greenish flowers. It grows in tropical North Queensland and New Guinea.

Where it grows

The honey orchid grows on trees and rocks in rainforest, usually in sunny, humid positions. It occurs in lowland and lower montane forest in New Guinea, on some Torres Strait Islands and from the Iron Range to Tully on the Cape York Peninsula.

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 pruinosum 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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