Dendrobium Pfeiff’s Kaleidoscope is a unique primary hybrid of Dendrobium lawesii and Dendrobium papilio. Like Dendrobium lawesii, Dendrobium Pfeiff’s Kaleidoscope is rather sensitive to light, and its leaves easily redden with too much intensity. For the first three photos, the canes are staked upright, but we have since repotted our plants into baskets. The canes then assumed their naturally pendulous nature, as you can see in the fourth photo.
Dendrobium Pfeiff’s Kaleidoscope well alongside its two parent species in our humid cool room, with 50F (10C) minimum nights in winter, and summer daytime highs in the low to mid 80s (26-29C).
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