Dendrobium fimbriatum Hook.
Frost-tender evergreen, epiphytic orchid with slender, spindle-shaped pseudobulbs, to 2m long, bearing lance-shaped leaves, to 15cm long, and pendant racemes, to 18cm long, of orange-yellow flowers, to 6cm across, with fringed lips, in spring. [RHSE, Pridgeon, Hortus, Jennings].
Horticultural & Botanical History
‘[ Dendrobium fimbriatum var. oculatum is] A native of Nepal, whence plants have from time to time been sent to our stoves by Dr. Wallich. It first blossomed in the Liverpool Botanic Garden, as stated in the “Exotic Flora:” and the flowers were of an uniform golden yellow. Our present plant, in the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, has a dark blood-coloured eye-like spot in the centre of the labellum, which adds greatly to the beauty of this otherwise very charming plant. This state of it, Dr. Lindley considers that of the native specimens. It flowered with us in September, 1843.’ [BM t.4160/1845].
Dendrobium fimbriatum was figured in Paxton’s Magazine of Botany [MB p.172/1835], the variety oculatum in Illustration Horticole [IH p.15, Vol.1/1854]. Introduced to Britain in 1823 by Dr. Wallich. [JD].
History at Camden Park
Listed in the 1850 and 1857 catalogues [O.18/1850]. Requested from Loddiges’ Nursery on 1st February, 1849 [MP A2933-1, p.185] and obtained from them, brought out from England by Captain P. P. King. [ML A1980-3].
Notes
Dendrobium fimbriatum Dalzell (1832) = Eria dalzelli Lindl., a related Indian species.
Dendrobium fimbriatum Lindl., synonym Dendrobium plicatile Lindl., is from the Phillipines and probably the same plant.
Published Jan 25, 2010 - 03:43 PM | Last updated Jan 25, 2010 - 03:49 PM
Dendrobium fimbriatum Hook. | BM t.4160/1845 | BHL
| Family | Orchidaceae |
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| Region of origin | Himalayas to south east Asia |
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| Name in the Camden Park Record |
Dendrobium fimbriatum |
| Confidence level | high |