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Dendrobium hercoglossum 'Phoenix' × 'Athanasios'
 
 
 
 
Number: TN8343
Name: Dendrobium hercoglossum 'Phoenix' × 'Athanasios'
Type: outcross    (What's that?)
Seed Donor: Troy C. Meyers
 
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Pod Parent Flowers
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Pollen Parent Flower
 
 
Comments: Pod parent plant: One of the offspring from our TN3139 effort of 2003.

Pollen parent plant: One of the offspring from our TN6137 effort of 2007.
 
For additional origin/habitat information supplied courtesy of Charles and Margaret Baker, see further below, near the bottom of this page.

Temperatures we attempt to use in the lab & greenhouse:
For Species:   Spring, Summer, Autumn: days average 81°F, nights 65°F; best fit is Intermediate 83-60°F (Source: Baker's Web OSC)
For Species:   Winter: days average 81°F, nights 57°F; best fit is Cool-Intermediate 75-58°F (Source: Baker's Web OSC)

About the name...
Etymology of Dendrobium   From Greek "dendron" tree and "bios" life. (Source: Pridgeon 1992)
Etymology of hercoglossum   From latinized Greek "hercoglossus" with a wall- or rampart-like lip. (Source: Mayr & Schmucker 1998)
Pronunciation of Dendrobium   den-DRO-bee-um (Source: Pridgeon 1992)
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Flask Information
Availability: We have sold all of the flasks for this item.
You should: Consider getting individual plants or compots instead of a flask.
See if we have plants available in the greenhouse.
Yield Estimate: 248 plants (based on flask surveys done 12/10/2017 through 12/13/2018)
Yield estimates are only approximate, but may appear to be fairly exact numbers because they are a combination of large rough estimates in remaining mother flasks and more accurate small estimates in reflasks.
Plantlet Sizes: From many flasks 10 - 80 mm plants (based on flask surveys done 12/10/2017 through 03/08/2019)
From one most recently surveyed flask 80 mm (03/08/2019)
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The origin/habitat information below is supplied courtesy of Charles and Margaret Baker

The following information is based on the name of the plant provided by the donor, and assumes that the name is correct. If the plant has been misidentified, then the following information may not be correct.
This text is copyrighted by the Bakers and may not be reproduced without permission.

ORIGIN/HABITAT: Sumatra, Malaya, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, and the Philippines. In China, plants grow in Kwangtung, Hainan and Hong Kong at 1950-4150 ft. (600-1260 m). In Sumatra, Schlechter collected a single plant from a tree near Padang at about 100 ft. (30 m). Plants often grow on trees near streams.
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