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Dendrobium wallichii is an orchid species identified by A.D.Hawkes & A.H.Heller in 1957. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium peguanum.
ORIGIN: Found in the eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Sikkim, Myanmar and Thailand as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing lithophyte or epiphyte found on secondary shrub vegatation near streams in hot and humid areas at elevations around 300 to 400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in the eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Sikkim, Myanmar and Thailand as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing lithophyte or epiphyte found on secondary shrub vegatation near streams in hot and humid areas at elevations around 300 to 400 meters with stout, leathery, fleshy, tufted, ovoid to globose to oblong-conical pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4, sessile, broadly elliptic to linear-oblong, leathery, deciduous, acute to subacute apically leaves that blooms in the late fall after a months dry spell on 1 to 3, short to 3 [to 7.5 cm] long, axillary, simultaneously one to several [to 12 and more in cultivation] flowered, racemose inflorescence that arise from the nodes at or near the apex of the newly leafless cane with fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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