Dendrobium aureum

India, Philippine Islands
Planting and growing requirements: winter resting period with no watering and good light. Propagate from old canes.
Ideal temperature: 10°C

During spring this dendrobium produces sweetly scented flowers of soft creamy colour with the lips brownish and covered with short hairs.
D. densiflorum is difficult to obtain nowadays and has brilliant yellow summer flowers.
D. Fiftieth State needs up to 17°C and could stomach almost full sunlight. It has long-lasting reddish flowers.
D. Gatton Sunray wants a temperature of 13°C and space. This large plant has striking summer flowers and canes of up to 2m.
D. infundibulum carries its large white flowers, softly textured and the lip blotched golden at the throat, during spring.
D. Louisae needs warmth of about 17°C to produce its lovely purplish flowers during autumn and winter.
D. nobile has spring flowers that start off being whitish in the centre, shading to a pinkish-purple towards the tips. The lip's throat is blotched with maroon.
D. pierardii wants about 12°C and blooms during spring. These flowers are very pretty and dusty pink, with the creamy round lip streaked purple at the bottom.
D. secundum also wants temperatures of between 12 - 13°C and produces spring and summer flower clusters. The small flowers are pink wit the lip blotched orange.
D. speciosum needs a lot of heat of between 12 - 19°C and loves humidity. The spring flowers are small and white with the lips faintly speckled with purple.
D. superbum wants conditions of about 17°C to produce its scented summer flowers of deep pink-purple and the lip a darker shade.
D. Tangerine 'Tillgates' need warmth of 12°C and its spring and summer blooms are striking with yellow sepals and lip and orange petals.
D. transparens also wants about 12°C and is spring flowering. These blooms are dusty rose with the colour intensifying towards the petal ends and their lips are distinctively marked with a double purple blotch.
D. wardianum needs only 10°C is known for its lip that carries two maroon stains at the base, is stained with yellow and is otherwise, like the rest of the flower, white edged with faint purple. It is winter flowering.
D. williamsonii needs similar heat to D. wardianum but has fragrant spring and summer flowers of white, the lip blotched with bright red.