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Hydranthus scandens is an orchid species identified by (Blume) Kuhl & Hasselt ex Rchb.f. in 1862. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dipodium scandens.
ORIGIN: Found in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Queensland Australia at elevations of 300 to 600 meters in rainforests.
DESCRIPTION: Giant sized, hot to warm growing saprophyte/epiphyte on humus at the base of trees and ascending with a climbing, densely leafy stem carrying many, alternately 2-ranked, linear-ligulate, gradually narrowing towards the apex, acute, conduplicate leaves that blooms in the summer through fall on an axillary, laxly many flowered, to 20 [50 cm] long racemose inflorescence with distant, short, broad, obtuse bracts and triangular floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.5 inches [3.8 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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