Habenaria Orchids

The Habenaria orchid genus contains about 600 species, spread through tropical countries worldwide. The mostly terrestrial, rarely epiphytic, growing Habenaria orchid genus has been introduced by the German botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow in the year 1805. The abbreviation in horticultural trade is: Hab.

Habenaria carnea

Habenaria carnea N.E. Br. 1891 is a terrestrial orchid species native to South Thailand and the Malay Peninsula. Flowers get a width of about 2 cm and a length of about 4 cm. The erect inflorescences carry up to 10 - 15 flowers. Whilst the lip is pure white, sepals and petals are slightly salmon-pink Read More »

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Habenaria xanthocheila Ridl. 1896

Habenaria xanthocheila Ridl. 1896 is a terrestrial, also lithophytic growing orchid species, native from China down to the Malay Peninsular. The British botanist Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855-1956), collected the small to middle sized orchid on the island of Penang, Malaysia. He named and described the tropical plant in 1896 as Habenaria xanthocheila, which is the Read More »

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Habenaria Light Wings

Habenaria Light Wings is a primary orchid hybrid, a crossing between the Habenaria species orchids Habenaria xanthocheila (seed parent) and Habenaria medusa (pollen parent), both native to South-East Asia. The terrestrial growing Habenaria Light Wings has been registered with the Royal Horticultural Society by P.Momkaew in the year 2011. The white flowers, reminescent of bird Read More »

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Habenaria medusa Kraenzl. 1893

Habenaria medusa Kraenzl.1893 is a terrestrial growing orchid species native to Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. The extraordinary flowers get a size of about 9 cm in diameteand are born on multi flowered inflorescences reaching a lengths up to about 50 cm. Flowering period: June - August. Habenaria medusa orchids are protected by CITES Appendix Read More »

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Habenaria rhodocheila Hance

Habenaria rhodocheila Hance 1866 is a tropical orchid species, widely distributed throughout South-East Asia. The orchid grows terrestrially on mossy rocks. The four-lobed lip is available in different colours, from light pink to dark pink, cinnabar to bright red, purple and yellow through orange. In Thailand Habenaria rhodocheila is called San Hin or Lin Mangkon, Read More »

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