Cattleya forbesii

Cattleya forbesii Lindl. (1826)

Warmingia eugenii

Warmingia eugenii - Rchb.f. 1881

Cymbidium aloifolium

Cymbidium aloifolium (L.) Sw. 1799

Flower Size 1 3/4" [4.25 cm]

Found in South Central China, Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands , Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Java and Sumatra in evergreen and in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of sealevel to 1100 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte on open mossy rocks with very small pseudobulbs enveloped by leaf bases, with coriaceous, suberect, linear-ligulate, obscurely bilobed apically leaves that blooms on a 2 1/2' [75 cm] long, basal, pendant, laxly many [45] flowered, racemose inflorescence occuring in the spring. This species can easily be confused with C dayanum but differs in having a rounded lip edge and an hourglass shape in the center of the lip. This species is found in seasonal forests.

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Oncidium pubes

Oncidium pubes Lindl. 1826

Flower Size 1" or less [2.5 cm]

Found in Espiritu Santo, Rio de Janiero, Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo and Parana states of Brazil in cooler montane forests at elevations of 400 to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic species with oblong-cylindrical, clustered, slightly compressed, green speudobulbs carrying 2 apical, erect or spreading, subcoriaceous, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring with a, to 2' [60 cm] long, arcuate to pendant, alternately branched panicle that is densly many flowered. Warm to cool conditions, moderate light, plenty of water while growing and a slightly drier winter rest and mounting on tree fern will ensure a happy plant.

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Dendrobium kingianum

Dendrobium kingianum Bidwill ex Lindley 1844

This is a small to large sized, cool to warm growing lithophytic orchid from Queensland and New South Wales Australia at elevations of 50 to 1200 meters where it is found both on the coast and in the mountains growing lithophytically on rocks and cliff faces forming dense mats, with swollen basally and then fusiform, sulcate, dark colored stems carrying 2 to 7 , near the apex, ovate, thin textured leaves and blooms in the late winter and early spring on an axillary, erect to arcuate, medium length to 16" [to 40 cm], few to 20 flowered, fragrant raceme that arises from the leaf axils at the apex of the canes both new and old. Water should be greatly reduced and fertilizer eliminated from mid fall until new growth appears in the spring.

The flowers of the species are quite color variable and have a full range of colors between red, purple, white striped and purplish blue.

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Dendrobium 'Stardust - Fire Bird'

Dendrobium 'Stardust - Fire Bird'

Belo híbrido resultante do cruzamento das espécies ancestrais Dendrobium moniliforme X Dendrobium unicum. Para uma floração intensa, a planta requer inverno seco e contraste de temperatura dia/noite de ~ 15°C. Dependendo das condições de cultivo, pode haver uma normal perda das folhas antes da floração.

Oncidium flexuosum

Oncidium flexuosum C.Loddiges 1820

Found in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay in the coastal mountains and along inland creeks and marshes at elevations of 500 to 800 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to hot growing, epiphytic orchid that has narrowly ovoid or avate-elliptic, compressed, ancipitous pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, spreading, slightly coriaceous, narrolwy oblong-ligulate, obtuse or abruptly acute leaves that blooms on an erect to arcuate, to 3' [90 cm] long, dull purple, paniculate inflorescence with 4 to 10, long ascending branches with to 10 flowers and narrowly triangular, very short, acute floral bracts and has many, small flowers occuring most often in the fall and winter.

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