Orchid Types

Keep your home between 65 F (18 C) and 80 F (27 C). At that range, most tropical

Buy salep at home as prepared powder from a known spice importer, never as raw wild orchid tubers

The Cooktown orchid is Dendrobium bigibbum, a warm growing epiphyte native to Cape York. It also grows on

Wild orchids in the UK include around 50 native species. They range from common roadside spikes to blooms

The common spotted orchid is Britain’s most widespread wild orchid. You’ll recognize it by pale pink to purple

A tolumnia orchid needs to dry fast after watering, within a few hours, not a day or two.

A field botanist working Vietnam’s central highlands once found a single Paphiopedilum on a limestone cliff. Loggers had

A grower waters a rhyncholaelia digbyana orchid for two years before the first bloom opens. Then one night

The man orchid is Orchis anthropophora, a chalk grassland orchid named for its odd flowers. Each flower is

People often assume the biggest orchid in the world must also grow the biggest flowers. That assumption is