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[[File:Dendrobium_pulchellum.jpg|thumb|''Dendrobium pulchellum'' (not my photo)]]


'''Common Name:''' The Charming Dendrobium<br />
'''Scented:''' yes<br />
'''Light Requirements:''' partial sun<br />
'''Temperature Requirements:''' hot to cool<br />
'''Blooms:''' late winter and spring<br />
'''Flower Size:''' 7 to 13cm<br />
'''Synonyms:''' ''Callista pulchella'' (Roxb. ex Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; ''Dendrobium dalhousieanum'' Wallich?; ''Dendrobium moschatum'' Griff. 1851
Found in Assam India, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Yunnan China and Vietnam at elevations of 70 to 2200 meters as a large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte in open deciduous forests with erect, rather slender, terete, purplish with age, to 6'6" [200 cm] long stem enveloped by purple-striped leaf sheaths and carrying persistent, linear-oblong, cordate at base, obtuse or acute leaves that blooms from late winter to spring on a drooping, .8 to 5" [2 to 30 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence which are borne laterally from nodes near the apex of leafed and leafless canes and have 5 to 15, long-lasting, fragrant flowers. In the winter this plant likes to dry out between waterings adn fertilizer should be with held until new growth appears in the spring.
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