{"id":494,"date":"2009-04-08T17:13:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T01:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/08\/dendrobium-kingianum\/"},"modified":"2009-11-12T23:01:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T07:01:59","slug":"dendrobium-kingianum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/08\/dendrobium-kingianum\/","title":{"rendered":"Dendrobium kingianum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a great beginner&#8217;s orchid beyond the typical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/phalaenopsis.html\">Phal<\/a>, this Australian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/dendrobium.html\">Dendrobium<\/a> species is popular in cultivation and easy to grow. It doesn&#8217;t have big showy flowers, but Dendrobium kingianum more than compensates with prolific blooms and a honey-sweet scent. Flowers can last for 2 months.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dendrobium flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dendrobium_kingianum_1_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dendrobium_kingianum_1_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrobium flowers\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Dendrobium flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dendrobium_kingianum_2_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dendrobium_kingianum_2_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrobium flowers\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Dendrobium flower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dendrobium_kingianum_3_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dendrobium_kingianum_3_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrobium flower\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Dendrobium can handle a wide range of temperatures, and can even survive a light freeze. Like many orchids, it does require <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/dendrobium.html\">a cool, dry winter rest<\/a> or it won&#8217;t bloom. Its native home is on the eastern Australian coast around Brisbane, where its roots attach to rocks and cliff faces in exposed areas. Here in San Francisco, I keep mine outdoors all year long, where it enjoys bright light and foggy breezes. For winter, I move the plant into full sun, keep it dry, and only worry about protecting it from heavy winter rains.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dendrobium flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dendrobium_kingianum_4_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dendrobium_kingianum_4_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrobium flowers\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Dendrobium flowers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dendrobium_kingianum_5_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dendrobium_kingianum_5_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrobium flowers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are numerous natural color varieties, and orchid growers have developed many color strains. Below are examples of pink, white, and purple forms. It&#8217;s often crossed with other Dendrobium species to create hardy and attractive hybrids, so there&#8217;s a wide range of choices to augment a growing orchid collection.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dendrobium flowers - pink form\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dendrobium_kingianum_6_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dendrobium_kingianum_6_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrobium flowers - pink form\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Dendrobium flowers - white form\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dendrobium_kingianum_7_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dendrobium_kingianum_7_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrobium flowers - white form\" \/><\/a><a title=\"Dendrobium flowers - purple form\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dendrobium_kingianum_8_640px.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/dendrobium_kingianum_8_640px.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrobium flowers - purple form\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a great beginner&#8217;s orchid beyond the typical Phal, this Australian Dendrobium species is popular in cultivation and easy to grow. It doesn&#8217;t have big showy flowers, but Dendrobium kingianum more than compensates with prolific blooms and a honey-sweet scent. Flowers can last for 2 months. This Dendrobium can handle a wide [&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":[9,12,3,18,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dormancy","category-fragrant-orchids","category-growing","category-intermediate-growers","category-orchids-in-the-wild","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}