Description
Dendrobium boosii section calcarifera is endemic to the Philippines. It grows amongst lichens and thin mats of mosses in shaded but open localities, usually on the underside of branches and occasionally on trunks, at elevations of about 700 metres.
Growth habit: pendent, sympodial.
Flower colour: sepals and petals are pinkish- white to pale pink with five to seven pinkish-red stripes basally, labellum is pink, yellow and orange.
- The plants are attached in 10 cm cork.
- Water twice a weekin Summer, less in winter
- Fertilize only during active growth of the plants. No Winter rest.
- warm to intermidiate in cultivation (17-24 degree)