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Orchid Species: Dendrobium chameleon
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dendrobium chameleon is an orchid species identified by Ames in 1908.
ORIGIN: A medium sized, warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte from the Philippines and Taiwan occurring at altitudes of 600 to 1000 meters on rocks, tree fern and tree trunks or hanging from branches in damp, shaded areas.
DESCRIPTION: A medium sized, warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte from the Philippines and Taiwan occurring at altitudes of 600 to 1000 meters on rocks, tree fern and tree trunks or hanging from branches in damp, shaded areas. It has cane-like, branching, pendant to horizontal stems that are thickened apically carrying many, ovate, evergreen leaves that blooms on an axillary, short, many to each pseudobulb, all along upper third of the leafed cane, 1 to 4 flowered, racemose inflorescence with flowers that quickly lose their original color and turn yellow.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 to 1 1/2 inches [2.5 to 3.75 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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