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Caladenia catenata, commonly known as white caladenia, white fingers and lady's fingers, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. It is a ground orchid with a single hairy leaf and one or two white, sometimes pink flowers on a thin, sparsely-hairy stem.
Cypripedium candidum, known as the small white lady's slipper or white lady's slipper, is a rare orchid of the genus Cypripedium. It is native to eastern North America across the northern United States and southern Canada .
Caladenia longicauda subsp. longicauda, commonly known as the white spider orchid, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has a single hairy leaf and up to four, mostly white flowers with long drooping, thread-like ends on the sepals and petals. It grows in woodland and forest.
Dancing lady orchids are light loving orchids that can live in 40-70% humidity. I also love boat orchids ( Cymbidium ). They are cool growing, so they work well in indoor environments, provided ...
Kondrat says you typically need to water an orchid every 7 to 10 days, but he cautions that’s a general rule of thumb and your orchid might need a different watering schedule.
In many orchids, such as Orchis mascula, the pollinia or pollen masses, are connected by stipes down to adhesive discs attached to the rostellum which forms cups keeping the discs or balls sticky. [2] In the Catasetum flower an extension of the rostellum forms a narrow feeler or "antenna" projecting forward over the labellum.
Most orchids have waxy pollinia. These are connected to one or two elongate stipes, [clarification needed] [3] which in turn are attached to a sticky viscidium, a disc-shaped structure that sticks to a visiting insect. [2] Some orchid genera have mealy pollinia. These are tapering into a caudicle (stalk), attached to the viscidium.
Caladenia longicauda subsp. merrittii, commonly known as Merritt's white spider orchid, is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has a single hairy leaf and up to three large, mainly white flowers with very long, drooping lateral sepals and petals , and a white broad labellum with ...