Dendrobium Ueang Pheung (Den. jenkinsii x Den. aggregatum

I brought this plant in 2014 and grew one in the shade and another in a spot where it gets four hours of full sunlight in the morning.  The plant in the shade, althought of similar size to the plant in this photos, is yet to bloom.  The plant in the sunny spot has bloomed twice, in 2015 and 2016.  Its care is the same as Dendrobium aggregatum.  I am growing this one on a wire basket lined with coconut fiber and filled with the nest material that I removed from a parrot nest that had raised chicks.   So far both plants have grown equally well, the one in the shade is growing in a dish where its roots can ramble, but it has not produced many roots and some roots are aeria;.  I will move it to a basket and slowly adapt it to more sun.

A Dendrobium lindleyi Steud. 1840 with unusually large flowers

I saw this extraordinary plant of Dendrobium lyndleyi some years back in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.  The flowers are far larger than those of any other Dendrobium lyndleyi I have seen anywhere.   They even dwarf the flowers of Den. jenkinsii.  This plant doesn't seem to be a hybrid, it has inflorescences that are much, much larger than those of Den. Ueang Pheung (lyndleyi x jenkinsii).  Unfortunately there seem to be only a few plants of this particular orchid and they are  very closely held by heir owners. Apparently this orchid is very rarely exhibited.