Dendrobium aphrodite Rchb.f 1862 SECTION Dendrobium Photo courtesy by Jay Pfahl

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Common Name Aphrodite's Dendrobium

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in the top of the tallest trees in Tennasserim range in Burma and Thailand as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte, slender, branching, suberect stems that are swollen at the nodes carrying a few, oblong-obtuse, decidouous leaves flowering in the spring on an axillary, few [1 to 2] flowered inflorescence with delicately fragrant flowers that arises from the upper leaf nodes of leafless canes and can produce for several seasons, occuring from March through May but only if given a very dry and cool winter rest until the buds appear and then water and fertilize heavily.

Synonyms Callista aphrodite (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium nodatum Lindley 1862

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006