Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Dendrobium crumenatum

A commonly and widely found orchids in Malaysia. In fact, most of the trees in Kuala Lumpur, the city of Malaysia, this orchids can be easily found.

Normally flowers after 7-9 days after long drought and follwed by heavy thunder storm, where the white flowers last only for a day with a nice fragrant.

The appearance of the flower buds resemble dove, thus, in Malay, it was called as orkid Merpati or Anggerek Merpati, where merpati is a dove.

Normaly it grow up to 150 cm from the base of it bulb.

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