ເອື້ອງເກົ້າກີ້ວ / Noble Dendrobium

Use
Income
Medicine
Ornamental
Scientific Name / Family
Dendrobium nobile Lindl. / Orchidaceae
Synonyms
Callista nobilis (Lindl.) Kuntze
Dendrobium coerulescens Wall. ex Lindl.
Dendrobium formosanum (Rchb.f.) Masam.
Dendrobium lindleyanum Griff.
Dendrobium nobile var. alboluteum Huyen & Aver.
Dendrobium nobile var. formosanum Rchb.f.
Dendrobium nobile var. nobilius Rchb.f.
Dendrobium nobile f. nobilius (Rchb.f.) M.Hiroe
Dendrobium nobile var. nobilus Burb.
Other Names
Chinese: Shi Hu
Thai: Ueang Khao Kiu
Botanical Description

Erect, clustered, compressed, grooved with age, yellowish stems carrying distichous, strap shaped or oblong, persistent leaves that blooms mostly in the winter and spring but is possible throughout the year on short, 2 to 4 flowered racemes with fragrant, waxy, heavy-textured, long-lived, highly variable [mostly color] flowers that arise at the upper nodes of leafed and leafless canes.

Occurrence in Region Chinese Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. Occurrence in nature (ecology and ecosystem) This is a medium sized, cool to hot growing terrestrial or lithophyte specie that is found in broadleaf, evergreen, lowland forests and primary mountainous forests as well as on mossy limestone rocks at elevations of 200 to 2000 meters.

Description of Use

Infusion-maceration by dry stems used as immune, aphrodisiac, stomachic, tonic, tuberculosis. whole plant for ornamental, stems for medicinal. Price 80,000 kip per plant, stem 30,000-100,000 kip per kg fresh, 150,000-300,000 kip per kg dry.

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