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Sayeria paradoxa is an orchid species identified by Kraenzl. in 1894. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dendrobium cruttwellii.
ORIGIN: Found in eastern Papua New Guinea as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte found low on the trunks of trees or on small branches of shrubs, that are usually less than ten feet tall, at elevations of 1500-2400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Found in eastern Papua New Guinea as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte found low on the trunks of trees or on small branches of shrubs, that are usually less than ten feet tall, at elevations of 1500-2400 meters with shiny, erect pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 3 oblong-lanceolate leaves. The bloom season is in the late spring and early summer on an axillary, wiry, arching to pendant, 8 [20 cm] long, slender, few to several flowered inflorescence that arises from the leaf nodes near the apex of the pseudobulb with 2 to 12, pendulous, long-lasting flowers and requires a slightly drier winter rest to set the flowering.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.2 to 1.4 inches [3 to 4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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