It smells like raspberry, strawberry, rhubarb, or hyacinth, depending upon one's imagination. Even the dried up flowers keep the fragrance for a while. Flowers of Dendrobium parishii has a similar fragrance, but it has much shorter and stockier pseudobulbs.
Are all Dendrobium fragrant?
Most of the evergreen Dendrobiums are not fragrant, however the deciduous species can have fresh citrus scent or smell of raspberries. Most Dendrobiums that you will commonly find for sale require intermediate temperatures and bright filtered light during the growing season. Humidity should be between 50 and 75%.
Which orchids smell bad?
Some of the worst smelling orchids are in the Bulbophyllum genus:
- Bulbophyllum beccarii, which smells like decaying animals.
- Bulbophyllum echinolabium, which smells like dog droppings.
- Bulbophyllum orientale, which smells like rotting apples and bananas.
- Bulbophyllum carunculatum, which smells like rotting brie cheese.
