Dipodium paludosum is an erect-growing plant with two-ranked leaves, which 
are ligulate, acute, thin, and membranaceous in texture, pale green, or with just a 
tinge of bluish, metallic green. Spike axillary, erect, bearing a raceme of six to 
twelve flowers, which measure individually about an inch and a half across, and 
are of a soft creamy white, dotted with purplish magenta. It is a plant that grows 
freely, but it requires a closer atmosphere than the Orchid house affords. We 
have grown it in a large fern case in the East Indian house, but we have seen 
it doing fairly well in Sir Trevor Lawrence’s collection at Burford Lodge, Dorking, 
where many difficult plants to grow are successfully treated by Mr. White, the 
gardener. We have found this plant thrive best in small pots well drained, using 
for it a mixture of peat and sphagnum moss; it likes a very moist atmosphere all 
the year round, but in less proportion in the winter months. 
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