Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden, South Africa
Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden, South Africa
Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden, South Africa
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Taxon
Dendrobium
discolor
Family:
Orchidaceae (Orchid)
Distribution:
New Guinea, Australia
Habitat:
Coastal scub and on mangroves, in coastal rainforest, and woodland, sometimes on rocks.
Life form:
Perennial plant
Usage:
Horticultural
Comments:
Grows warm to hot as an epiphyte, as well as a lithophyte, directly on the coast in mangroves or behind dunes, where they can have salt spray as well as on cliffs and rock faces up to an altitude of 550 meters.
Locations
1:
Tropical house 2
(Tropical Hse 2)
• Accession: 2019-7/1 • Provenance: Unrecorded
Area
Individual