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You see, moth orchids are tropical plants and they do not like cold weather, so bring them indoors before the temperatures drop into the 50s and place them close to a window that has bright ...
The key to growing orchids at home indoors is to learn about the plant and try to replicate its growing conditions from the wild. Proper watering is essential. It's easy to go wrong following what ...
These fragrant orchids boast numerous blooms with 8 to 12 flowers blooming from a single bulb. Brassia orchids love moisture and prefer bright, diffused light. Care Guide
Coelogyne cristata is an epiphytic orchid that comes from cool, moist areas of the eastern Himalayas and Vietnam.It blooms every spring, before the snow begins to melt. Its genus name Coelogyne originates from two Greek words, koilos ("hollow") and gyne ("woman"), because of the orchid's concave stigma.
Calypso orchids are typically 8 to 20 cm in height. [2] At the bottom there is only a single leaf, which is stalked up to about 7 cm long. The leaves are whole eliptical lanceolate to egg-shaped blade is up to 6 cm long and up to 5 cm wide. Plant blooms with a purple-pink hermaphroditic, zygomorphic and threefold flower.
The flowers are around 2 cm (0.8 in) long, with "yellowish green" sepals, with a red tint near the base; the lip is dark red, while the column is "yellow tinged red"; the petal appendages are greyish. [2] Bulbophyllum nocturnum is believed to be the only species of orchid to routinely flower during the night. [2]
Here are the best types of orchids you can grow indoors or out. Choose from easy to care for varieties or more exotic flowers, and learn how to care for them. With more than 25,000 species ...
These caespitose orchids grow in tufts from a short rhizome, with a dense pack of stems. They lack pseudobulbs. On each stem grows one large, thin, plicate leaf with a sharply defined midrib. These glabrous, light to dark green leaves may be spongy, taking over the function of the missing pseudobulb.