Orchids


Trigonidium egertonianum

Trigonidium egertonianum Bateman ex Lindl. 1838, an epiphytic growing orchid species related with Maxillaria orchids, has been named in honour to the English orchid enthusiast William Tatton Egerton (1806 - 1883), who passed into the ownership of Tatton Park, a historic estate in Cheshire, England. Trigonidium egertonianum orchids are native to the tropical American countries [read more...]

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Grammatocymbidium Pakkret Adventure

Grammatocymbidium Pakkret Adventure is a Thai orchid hybrid, an intergeneric crossing from Cymbidium Tender Love (seed parent) and Grammatophyllum Yuan Nan Tiger (pollen parent). Grammatocymbidium Pakkret Adventure has been registered with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in 2010 by the Thai orchid nursery Pakkret Floriculture. Pakkret Floriculture is an orchid nursery, based in Nonthaburi, …

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Bulbophyllum frostii Summerh.1928, commonly called Dutch Man’s Clog orchid, is a miniature orchid species native to Vietnam. In 1928 the British botanist Victor Samuel Summerhayes (1897-1974) named the epiphytic growing Bulbophyllum frostii in honour to John Frost (1803–1840), founder of the Medico-Botanical Society of London. The small fragrant flowers get a length of about 2,5 [read more...]

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Miltoniopsis Patricia Anne Maroon is an orchid hybrid with large dark red flowers, a crossing between Miltoniopsis Anamaria Baptista (seed parent) and Miltoniopsis Red Knight (pollen parent). Just the lip of this stunning orchids flower measures about 10 cm across. The epiphytic growing Miltoniopsis hybrid has been registered in 1995. Under perfect circumstances Miltoniopsis Patricia [read more...]

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Dendrobium parishii Rchb.f 1863 an epiphytic growing orchid species native to India (Assam), China (Hainan), Myanmar (former Burma), Thailand, Laos and Vietnam, has been described and named by the German Botanist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823-1889) in honour to Reverend Charles Samuel Pollock Parish (1822-1897). The fragrant and long-lasting Dendrobium parishii flowers, with a scent reminescent [read more...]

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Doritis pulcherima var. champornensis alba

Doritis pulcherrima var. champornensis alba is an albino variant and a peloric flower form of the stunnig Doritis pulcherrima Lindl. 1832, an orchid species native to South East Asia. But even if books about orchids use the name Doritis pulcherrima var. champornensis alba, the name is not accepted by the science of botany and to [read more...]

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Rhynchostylis gigantea f. harrisoniana

The white Rhynchostylis gigantea, often called Rhynchostylis gigantea f. harrisoniana (Hook.) M.Wolff & O.Gruss 2007 or Rhynchostylis gigantea var alba, is correctly named Rhynchostylis gigantea subsp. gigantea. As Rhynchostylis gigantea f. harrisoniana is accepted as a synonym, Rhynchostylis gigantea var alba is not accepted by the science of botany. The white, epiphytic growing Rhynchostylis gigantea, [read more...]

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