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Dendrobium

noun
1.
A plant of the genus Dendrobium having stems like cane and usually showy racemose flowers.



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... white bushy rhododendron, which we found nowhere else. The hard granite of the top was covered with matted mosses, lichens, Lycopodiums, and ferns, amongst which were many curious and beautiful airplants.* [Eria, Coelogyne (Wallichii, maculata, and elata), Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Sunipia some of them flowering profusely; and though freely exposed to the sun and wind, dews and frosts, rain and droughts, they were all fresh, bright, green and strong, under very different treatment from that to which they are exposed in the damp, unhealthy, steamy orchid-houses ...
— Himalayan Journals (Complete) • J. D. Hooker


Words linked to "Dendrobium" :   orchidaceous plant, orchid, genus Dendrobium


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