Dendrobium draconis Rchb.f.
Description: A wideranging, small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic orchid that is found from Assam India, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam at elevations of 700 to 2000 meters with tufted, slightly fusiform or clavate, 8 to 9 noded stems with sheaths covered in black hairs and carrying rather leathery, ligulate or lanceolate, dark green, acute, or obliquely bilobed leaves that blooms in the early spring on a apical or axillary, very short, 2 to 5 flowered raceme with, waxy, longlived, fragrant flowers smelling of Tangerine arising from nodes near the apex on older canes and is refered to as the most common Dendrobium in the world.
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