Ascocentrum Orchids

The orchid genus Ascocentrum has been established by the German botanist Rudolf Schlechter in the year 1914 and contains about 13 epiphytic growing orchid species, which are native to tropical Asia.
Ascocentrum orchids are widely used for hybridisation with Vanda orchids, which creates the orchid hybrid genus Ascocenda.
The abbreviation in horticultural trade is: Asctm .


Ascocentrum curvifolium

Ascocentrum curvifolium (Lindl.) Schltr.1913 is an epiphytic growing orchid species, native to the Himalayas, India (Assam), South China, Nepal, Myanamar (formerly Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. The erect inflorescences reach lengths of about 25 cm and are packed with multiple flowers. The orange-red flowers get a size of about 2,5 cm in diameter …

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Asconopsis Jiaho's Orange

Asconopsis Jiaho’s Orange is a small sized, epiphytic growing, intergeneric orchid hybrid, a crossing between Asconopsis Irene Dobkin (seed parent) and Phalaenopsis Zuma’s Pixie (pollen parent). The beautiful orange Asconopsis hybrid has been developed and registered with the Royal Horticultural Society in the year 2004 by Nobby Orchids, an orchid nursery from Yünlin, Taiwan. The Read More »

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Ascocentrum christensonianum Haager 1993

Ascocentrum christensonianum Haager 1993 is a small epiphytic growing orchid species native to Vietnam. The Czech botanist Jiri (George) Haager described Ascocentrum christensonianum in the year 1993 and named the tropical orchid species in honour to the American botanist Eric A. Christenson (born 1956). The erect, many-flowered inflorescences of Ascocentrum christensonianum reach a …

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Ascocentrum garayi Christenson 1992

Ascocentrum garayi Christenson 1992 is an epiphytic growing orchids species, native to Laos, Thailand and Vietnam, named by Eric A. Christenson in honour to the American botanist and taxonomist Leslie Garray. Ascocentrum garayi is often mistaken for Ascocentrum miniatum, which looks quite similar at the first view. One of the differences is, that Ascocentrum miniatum Read More »

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Ascocentrum ampullaceum (Lindl.) Schltr. 1913

Ascocentrum ampullaceum (Lindl.) Schltr. 1913 is an epiphytic growing miniature orchid species, endemic to the Himalayas, India (Assam, Sikkim), Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, China, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. Primarily described by William Roxburgh as Aerides ampullacea in 1832, then changed by Sir John Lindley to Saccolabium ampullaceum, finally recategorised by Rudolf Schlechter as Ascocentrum Read More »

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