{"id":246,"date":"2008-11-06T16:02:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T00:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/06\/dendrochilum\/"},"modified":"2010-01-23T10:50:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T18:50:17","slug":"dendrochilum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/06\/dendrochilum\/","title":{"rendered":"Dendrochilum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at that name again &#8212; it&#8217;s not a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/dendrobium.html\">Dendrobium<\/a>, but a Dendrochilum. Both kinds come from Southeast Asia, but Dendrochilums are a separate genus, distinguished by their chains of small flowers. This Dendrochilum tenellum is widespread among many islands of the Philippines, where it is native to cloud forests in mountainous areas.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dendrochilum tenellum flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dendrochilum_tenellum_1_640px.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dendrochilum_tenellum_1_640px.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Dendrochilum tenellum flowers\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Dendrochilum tenellum flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dendrochilum_tenellum_2_640px.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dendrochilum_tenellum_2_640px.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"Dendrochilum tenellum flowers\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Dendrochilum tenellum flowers close-up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dendrochilum_tenellum_8_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dendrochilum_tenellum_8_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrochilum tenellum flowers close-up\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Near the tips of the grass-like leaves, cascades of minuscule flowers resemble small cream-colored feathers. Not only do the leaves look like grass, but this orchid also grows into a large clump like a grass. Dendrochilums like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/light.html\">bright light<\/a>, regular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/water.html\">water <\/a>during spring and summer, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/care\/details\/humidity.html\">high humidity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dendrochilum tenellum leaves\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dendrochilum_tenellum_3_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dendrochilum_tenellum_3_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrochilum tenellum leaves\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Dendrochilum tenellum flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dendrochilum_tenellum_4_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dendrochilum_tenellum_4_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrochilum tenellum flowers\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Dendrochilum tenellum flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dendrochilum_tenellum_6_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dendrochilum_tenellum_6_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrochilum tenellum flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each flower is less than 1\/8 inch (3 mm) wide. With 30 or more mini-flowers per spike, a large plant can have thousands of flowers at once.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dendrochilum tenellum flowers close-up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dendrochilum_tenellum_5_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dendrochilum_tenellum_5_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrochilum tenellum flowers close-up\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Dendrochilum tenellum flowers close-up\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dendrochilum_tenellum_7_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/dendrochilum_tenellum_7_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrochilum tenellum flowers close-up\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at that name again &#8212; it&#8217;s not a Dendrobium, but a Dendrochilum. Both kinds come from Southeast Asia, but Dendrochilums are a separate genus, distinguished by their chains of small flowers. This Dendrochilum tenellum is widespread among many islands of the Philippines, where it is native to cloud forests in mountainous areas. Near the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,10,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intermediate-growers","category-orchids-in-the-wild","category-photos","category-watering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}