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Dendrobium farmeri 'pink'

This dendrobium is native to Asia from Himalayas to Indochina. This orchid easily recognisable with hard and square stems. This dendrobium habitat is epiphyte and can easily found at evergreen forest from 150m to 1000 meters. Its grows well in hot to warm environment.




The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud~Paula Cole
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Bulbophyllum kubahense


This orchid only can be found in Sarawak at elevation around 100 to 200 meters. So this species also knowns as The Kubah National Park Bulbophyllum. The size of the flower is around 2.5 cm. This bulbophyllum is miniature sized and hot growing at low level epiphyte with distant cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single leaf.
Inflorescence up to 15 - 17 flowers carrying non-resupinate, wide open, mostly simultaneously opening flowers. 




The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs~Malcolm de Chaz
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Lc Magic Bell 'New Trick'

This is the hybrid between Lc Brazilian Treasure and Cattleya Loddigesii. The results give special peach colours and come with striking stripes.



Taste and love are not the servants of the will. Love is and must be free. It rises from the heart like perfume from a flower~Robert Green Ingersoll
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New hybrid Cattleya

This is the second successful hybrid made by Orchid de Dangau. In the process to register a new name. If you know the parentage please message me via FB, maybe you are lucky to be the 1st owner of this hybrid. (Open only for Malaysian).. Closing date is 1 month from this post.



The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life~Jean Giraudoux
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Bulbophyllum graveolens 'spotted'

This bulbophyllum under section Cirrhopetalum which is fringed-petaled. Other name to this bulbophyllum is robust cirrhopetalum.
This species originated from New Guinea in rainforests on tree trunks at elevations between 100 to 600 meters. It has a very large and single leafted epiphyte. The leaf size can achieve up to 9 inch long some times can more than that. This orchid bracteate inflorescence which has an apical umbel of many long-lasting flowers sometimes more than 10 flowers. It held below the leaves.
This species requires a heavy pot to contain the large and robust plant and should be given hot temperatures, partial shade and high humidity as well as regular watering.




Even if the flower is no more, still, the fragrance can be~Jaggi Vasudev
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Epidendrum calanthum

Also known mini lavender pink reed stem, this orchid distributes from the montane Tropical rainforest of Bolivia (including Cochabamba), Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, and the West Indies.
This species is sympodial habit, terete stems covered from the base with close, tubular, disthicous sheathes which are leaf-bearing on the upper part of the stem, and a terminal peduncle covered from its base with close, tubular sheathes. The stem grows up to 1 m tall below the inflorescence, and the inflorescnece itself grow to 0.4 m tall, with the white to pink resupinate flowers born in a congested raceme at the end. The leaves grow to 10 cm long.
Remarkably this orchid can grow well here in Malaysia with no season.





When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole~William Makepeace Thackeray
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Rhyncostylish gigantea 'purple spot' '

Rhyncostylish gigantea also known the giant Rhyncostylish. Why the giant? It is because this plant have the biggest size of flower and plant in the family.
Rhyncostylish gigantea is native to Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Borneo and Indonesia. But until today, i never get/found, the plant originally from Malaysia forest🤔🤔🤔
This species can be found at 265m and above sea level, with this condition it is the best choice to have one in your garden.
It is monopodial, warm to hot growing epiphyte, which reaching 61 cm in height, with a stout, 10 cm stem carrying imbricating at the base, linear, very thick, channeled, acute lobed apically, up to 30 cm long and 5-7.5 cm wide leaves.


Happiness is the natural flower of duty~Phillips Brooks