Dendrochilum magnum - Orchid Board

smweaver · #1 (**permalink**) 09-22-2007, 02:35 PM

This plant, with a leafspan approaching four feet, flowers every fall and is a breeze to grow and bloom. If you've got room for it, it makes a wonderful display. I've had this plant for many years, and it tends to produce multiple leads each year. This year it has thirty-eight new leads that are flowering. The flowers are highly fragrant (especially if you enjoy the scent of laundry detergent

). The flowers also happen to be a mosquito magnet (luckily, I think it's the male mosquitoes--and not the vampire females--that seem to be entranced by the scent since I'm never attacked when I water the plant and disturb all of its admirers).

cb977 · #2 (**permalink**) 09-22-2007, 02:54 PM

That is spectacular!!!
Thanks for sharing it with us

khill · #3 (**permalink**) 09-22-2007, 07:08 PM

Wow! That isn't planted in the ground--is it? I wonder how that would do in Florida?

cb977 · #4 (**permalink**) 09-22-2007, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by khill

Wow! That isn't planted in the ground--is it? I wonder how that would do in Florida?

Great minds think alike

You'd probably do better than I would as it gets a bit colder here.

smweaver · #5 (**permalink**) 09-22-2007, 11:44 PM

I would imagine that it would do marvelously in Florida. And no, it's not planted in the ground

. I was having a hard time figuring out where and how to best photograph it. So I decided to simply take it off its pedestal/bench and sit it on the ground. It's very temperature tolerant and doesn't seem to attract diseases or insects (well, other than its mosquito admirers when it blooms). It is something of a water hog and responds well to lots of water throughout the growing season. I grow it in fairly bright light close to the Cattleyas; however, it's very robust and would probably do equally well in light conditions closer to what Phals enjoy. I bet you could probably grow it as a fairly low-maintenance landscape plant down where you guys live--where it would undoubtedly turn into even more of a space-hogging monster.

Neverend · #6 (**permalink**) 09-23-2007, 03:39 AM

Wow.. spectacular!

Toddybear · #7 (**permalink**) 09-23-2007, 07:47 AM

Incredible! What a size!

Lagoon · #8 (**permalink**) 09-23-2007, 01:51 PM

OMG!! It's beautiful

Paul · #9 (**permalink**) 10-06-2007, 03:18 PM

Good Lord that's a BIG sucker!

gmdiaz · #10 (**permalink**) 10-06-2007, 03:25 PM

Wow, doesn't cover it!

That's a WHOPPER!

Great growing!