Dendrobium bigibbum, commonly known as Cooktown orchid or mauve butterfly orchid, is an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid in the family Orchidaceae. It has cylindrical pseudobulbs, each with between three and five green or purplish leaves and arching flowering stems with up to twenty, usually lilac-purple flowers. It occurs in tropical North Queensland, Australia and New Guinea.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Cooktown Orchid being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Barkeria vanneriana
- Laelia eyermaniana
- Dendrobium anosmum
- Laelia rubescens
- Artorima erubescens
- Dimerandra emarginata
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Dendrobium
- Species
- Dendrobium bigibbum
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