{"id":946,"date":"2014-04-01T02:29:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T02:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/?p=946"},"modified":"2014-12-26T10:26:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T10:26:20","slug":"dendrobium-amoenum-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/dendrobium-amoenum-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Dendrobium amoenum Wall."},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">Epiphyte, mostly pendulous. Stem long as 35 to 70 cm and 1 to 2 cm in diameter, slightly thickened at nodes. Leaves alternate, 4 to 6 cm long and 1 to 2 cm in width, oblong lanceolate, apex acute. Flowers beautiful, 2 to 3 cm across, arising from nodes of leafless stems, 2 to 3 from short bracteate penduncles. Sepals white with pale violet margins, petals white with a violet blotch on its tips tip, lip white with a violet blotch near its apex and another greenish yellow towards its middle with a few purple streaks on its sides. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, three veined, slightly longer than the petals. Petals broader than the sepals, ovate, obtuse, one veined. Lip long as the sepals, oblong-obovate, clawed at the base with broad side lobes; the terminal lobe with undulate edges and rounded or sometimes with pointed tips; with puberulous upper and lower surfaces.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-945\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Dendrobium-amoenum-Wall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-945\" src=\"http:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Dendrobium-amoenum-Wall.jpg\" alt=\"Dendrobium amoenum, Wall\" width=\"400\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Dendrobium-amoenum-Wall.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Dendrobium-amoenum-Wall-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dendrobium amoenum Wall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>The Pursuit<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">One of the most charming of Indian Dendrobes\u201d &#8211; wrote Sir. George King and Robert Pantling. The plant&#8217;s pendulous and long stems always attract attention. Found growing in the tropical valleys and to altitudes up to 5000 ft in the hills. I had spotted the species, a few of them, from an intermediate altitude and waited for the monsoon season to see them in flowers. The month of May is the season of many blooming and I am forced to travel long distances every day to study and document various other species. But always remembered this \u201ccharming\u201d one. Visited the area in the mid of May to see them in buds. Hoping it will be in bloom, visited the spot after 8 days to find it again in buds only. The whole program to the North hills was to be re-scheduled for this species and I waited for the next few days to see it in bloom. Every morning I made a long drive to the spot to see buds only, but seeing the buds swollen was encouraging. Finally, on the fourth morning, I got to see this \u201ccharming\u201d beauty in full bloom. Selected the best of the best flower, a very difficult job \u2013 to select a beauty from a dozen beauties!!! The pendulous and long stem always swings in the wind thus making it difficult to pin sharp the flower. However, I am lucky enough to have the experience of working in those windy conditions and produced this wonderful photograph with some extra micro lighting techniques.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epiphyte, mostly pendulous. Stem long as 35 to 70 cm and 1 to 2 cm in diameter, slightly thickened at nodes. Leaves alternate, 4 to 6 cm long and 1 to 2 cm in width, oblong lanceolate, apex acute. Flowers beautiful, 2 to 3 cm across, arising from nodes of leafless stems, 2 to 3 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/dendrobium-amoenum-wall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dendrobium amoenum Wall.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[146,65,64,54,61,66,60,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naresh.org.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}