Almost 1,500 species are included in the genus Dendrobium. The noble dendrobium (Dendrobium nobile) is one of the showiest dendrobium orchids. The many brightly colored and sweetly scented flowers ...

The orchid family is the largest of the flowering plant families with about 30,000 wild and 100,000 cultivated hybrids. An interesting member of the family is the Nobile dendrobium orchid ( Dendrobium ...

First described by Europeans in 1830, Dendrobium nobile has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for over 2,000 years. More recently, evidence-based research has been conducted on D. nobile which ...

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