Object Details
- Description
- This small to medium sized orchid prefers warm to cool temperatures. It is named for the daughter of an Australian pastor in the late 1800s.
- Bloom Time (Northern Hemisphere)
- Year round
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Accession Number
- 2010-1232B
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Life Form
- Epiphytic
- Bloom Characteristics
- Inflorescence is 3-8" (7.6-20.3 cm) long with 6-12 white flowers with purple-lined throats. Flowers are 3" (7.5 cm) across.
- Fragrance
- Fragrant
- Range
- New Guinea to Solomon Is.
- Habitat
- Wet tropic lowlands; 1640-4920ft (500-1500m)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian Gardens Orchid Collection
- Common Name
- Johnson's Dendrobium
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Magnoliidae
- Superorder
- Lilianae
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Subfamily
- Epidendroideae
- Genus
- Dendrobium
- Species
- johnsoniae
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Topic
- Orchids
- Living Collections
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2010-1232B
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ax722abf969-f588-4f11-a262-0c206a010361
