help with orchid identification

[flybyferns]

Calling all deranged chipmunks !
I need help with an orchid identification !

It has blush colored/small blossoms that bloom in little clusters.
It's NOT particularly fragrant, on the contrary.

It's has a bud...I'm so excited !



It's mounted in there with an air plant,

Thanks Bill
Happy New Year

[deranged chipmunk]

it's funny, quite a few orchids smell quite bad, it's to protect them from being eaten. you would thin such a pretty flower would smell good. wrong...LOL can you get a clear pic of the bud and/or flower? that would be helpful. we may have to wait until it blooms to get a better id.

[arielgasca420]

are the petals rounded? I only ask because there are some funky looking orchids out there that have very distinguished shape or markings.
If it is small and in clusters it may be a Dendrobium. they bloom in little cluster on one stalk. they are supposed to have little fragrance, but hard to detect if you dont know it.
here is the Dendrobium kingianum which I think may be what you have, but you would know best since you have seen the bloom already. The problem I have with the ID in your picture is that the leaves are more broad and rounded than a Dendrobium but hopefully Bill can correct me on this one since he is the orchid Guru.

[arielgasca420]

Another guess could be Epidendrum

but again the leaves are pretty narrow on this orchid and it is very stalky.
Epidendrum radicans:

[Tammy McLaughlin]

Dendrobium check this site out. Orchid Identification

[flybyferns]

are the petals rounded? I only ask because there are some funky looking orchids out there that have very distinguished shape or markings.
If it is small and in clusters it may be a Dendrobium. they bloom in little cluster on one stalk. they are supposed to have little fragrance, but hard to detect if you dont know it.
here is the Dendrobium kingianum which I think may be what you have, but you would know best since you have seen the bloom already. The problem I have with the ID in your picture is that the leaves are more broad and rounded than a Dendrobium but hopefully Bill can correct me on this one since he is the orchid Guru.

Thank You !
Yes !
These leave are quite similar.
Sorry for my lousy photo.
I think you nailed it.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Dend...w=1443&bih=756

The bud looks just like this !


Thanks

[deranged chipmunk]

are the petals rounded? I only ask because there are some funky looking orchids out there that have very distinguished shape or markings.
If it is small and in clusters it may be a Dendrobium. they bloom in little cluster on one stalk. they are supposed to have little fragrance, but hard to detect if you dont know it.
here is the Dendrobium kingianum which I think may be what you have, but you would know best since you have seen the bloom already. The problem I have with the ID in your picture is that the leaves are more broad and rounded than a Dendrobium but hopefully Bill can correct me on this one since he is the orchid Guru.

far from a guru, but thanks Ariel...lol the problem with orchid id's are that there are almost 5000 or so species described. i think that is the last number i saw. with about 1800 in madagascar alone. it does look like a mini dendrobium to me, but it could be a couple others as well. it is so much easier to id them when they are in bloom.

Tammy, that is an excellent site, but they only list the common ones. i noticed aerangis is missing along with a few others from SE Africa/Madagascar area

[flybyferns]

far from a guru, but thanks Ariel...lol the problem with orchid id's are that there are almost 5000 or so species described. i think that is the last number i saw. with about 1800 in madagascar alone. it does look like a mini dendrobium to me, but it could be a couple others as well. it is so much easier to id them when they are in bloom.

Tammy, that is an excellent site, but they only list the common ones. i noticed aerangis is missing along with a few others from SE Africa/Madagascar area

Don't know for sure.
I'll post a photo when it blooms.
Thanks , Bill

[exasperatus2002]

Im a member at orchidgeeks.com. I'd recommend posting there. Alot of good folk that can help you out with that.

Calling all de


ranged chipmunks !
I need help with an orchid identification !

It has blush colored/small blossoms that bloom in little clusters.
It's NOT particularly fragrant, on the contrary.

It's has a bud...I'm so excited !



It's mounted in there with an air plant,

Thanks Bill
Happy New Year

[flybyferns]

Im a member at orchidgeeks.com. I'd recommend posting there. Alot of good folk that can help you out with that.

Hi,
This is very thoughtful of you ! Thank You
I think it's a more common orchid as I purchased it (at least 4 yeas ago) from big nursery.
If I wait until I am 'graced' with a blossom, it will be more easily identified?

It is most definitively doing well. I have to admit ...I gave it to my Mom shorty after I purchased it because it did nothing. Or, in other words...I could not get it to do anything !!! She has a green thumb; and naturally got it to bloom ! I took some cuttings in Oct , and that was that.
I guess it likes where it is?

Thanks again
Lynn