Wild Dendrobium

Growing in the scarcely visited cliffs, cliff crevice, the root does not enter the soil, perennial full of clouds, fog, rain, dew moisturizing. At present, the wild Dendrobium has been on the verge of extinction, and has been listed as a treasured and endangered medicinal plant under national protection.

Wild dendrobium, born in the mountains at an altitude of up to 1600 meters of semi-shady and wet rocks, like warm and humid climate and half-shade and half-sun environment, not cold. Dendrobium can be divided into dozens of species such as yellow grass, hairpin, vervain, etc. Dendrobium iron and hairpin dendrobium is the best of dendrobium, dendrobium iron because the skin is iron green and named. Dendrobium has a unique medicinal value, with its stems into medicine, Chinese medicine name: Dendrobium, belongs to the tonic medicine in the yin tonic medicine, dendrobium and a few other varieties of young stems, twisted into a spiral or spring, sun-dried, the commodity known as earrings dendrobium, also known as maple dipper. Dendrobium dendrobium maple dipper is mainly produced in Yunnan, Guizhou, because the dendrobium dendrobium cherished endangered, in 1987 the state will be listed as the key protection you wild plants, in the international market, the wild dendrobium maple dipper per kilogram sold for as much as 4,000 U.S. dollars, known as the real plant gold.

Wild dendrobium grows in the clouds, Guizhou, Sichuan, Burma and other places rarely visited cliffs, shaded cliffs, the root does not enter the soil, full of clouds, fog, rain, dew moisturizing, subject to the heaven and earth's aura, biological habits, mysterious and unpredictable. At present, the wild Dendrobium has been on the verge of extinction. Due to the wild dendrobium on the natural ecological conditions require extremely harsh, natural reproduction rate is extremely low, as early as in the eighties of the last century, dendrobium was listed as a national key protection of the cherished and endangered medicinal plants.

Morphology of wild Dendrobium:

Stem erect, cylindrical, 9-35 centimeters long, 2-4 millimeters thick, unbranched, with multiple nodes, internodes 1-3-1.7 centimeters long, often interspersed with 3-5 leaves above the middle.

Leaves distichous, papery, oblong-lanceolate, 3-4(-7) cm long, 9-11(-15) mm wide, apex obtuse and ± hooked, base decurrent into clasping sheaths, margins and midribs often lilac; leaf sheaths often purple-spotted, the upper margins of which loosely open from the stems in old age and leave an annular ferruginous hiatus from the nodes.