ເອື້ອງສາຍຫຼວງ / Unscented Dendrobium

Use
Income
Medicine
Ornamental
Scientific Name / Family
Dendrobium anosmum Lindl. / Orchidaceae
Synonyms
Dendrobium anosmum var. dearei (Rolfe) Ames & Quisumb.
Dendrobium anosmum var. huttonii (Rchb.f.) Ames & Quisumb.
Dendrobium dayanum Grindon
Callista anosma (Lindl.) Kuntze
Callista scortechinii (Hook.f.) Kuntze
Other Names
Chinese: Tan xiang shi hu
Thai: Ueang sai Luang
Botanical Description

Large sized, pendulous, cane orchid with distichous, deciduous leaves  with terete, arching to pendulous, to 120 cm long, many noded stem with each node enveloped by a loose fitting sheath and carrying oblong elliptic, acute, deciduous leaves in October until the new leads appear sometime in the early spring. It blooms in the spring with 8 to 10 flowers which arise from the nodes all along the apical of the leafless cane and are held close in, it is quite scented.

Distribution: Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, and Papua and New Guinea
in gallery layers of lower primary forests at elevations from 300m up to 1300 meters.  It is a cool growing orchid that needs a distinct dry period starting

Description of Use

Dry stem used as a tonic/aphrodisiac. Flower use as a perfume in Feb to April. Price30 000 LAK Per plant 50 000-80 000 kip per kg.

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