Dendrobium Kingianum: The Australian

Lightweight and thin, its flowers are like little clouds perched on top of discrete rods. Native to eastern Australia, the dendrobium please amateurs and beginners looking for sweet dreams. Discovered by John Bidwill in 1839, it continues to magnify your interiors with its scent of lily of the valley, some say of violets. But this is an original plant since it releases its fragrance a few hours a day. Its bloom is winter, which is the Australian spring, but when buds appear the place warm (18-20 ° C) because it is only then that the fragrance will be released. The pseudobulbs have a tapered shape, the flower stalk will be 30 cm or less. This will offer 2 to 15 flowers about 3 cm each. It's an orchid in its native environment, takes place in porous rocks but you can cultivate perfectly on a sheet of cork or tree fern in a pot with a substrate of pine treated fairly finely . If you want to effect "cloud" and have your 15 flowers per stem, give him a minimum of 50 000 lux in winter, always protected from direct radiation. Although it can accept a lower moisture, offer him a humidity of over 60%, it will be more flowers at the end. Watering must be frequent in spring and summer. Let it rest period thereafter, do not let it dry out either, at least she has a pink in the morning if you have a greenhouse quite humid. Otherwise, be sure to water lightly once a week. But beware, it is still growing cold, which means 10 ° C in winter and 17 ° C maximum in summer. Do not put that in warm place to view blooming away and scent your home.