The orchid family (Orchidaceae) is oldest and largest flowering plant family on earth with about 28,000 species! They come in every color, size, and shape imaginable and are typically not more ...

The vanda orchid is one of the loveliest varieties of the species but one of the most difficult to grow. Vandas are epiphytes; they grow without the aid of soil and use another plant for support.

The most commonly mounted epiphytic orchid types are Angraecum, Brassavola, Cattleya, Dendrobium, Oncidium, Phalaenopsis, ...

The 15th annual Orchid Show is a valentine to Thailand, the world’s largest exporter of tropical orchids and home to 1,200 species of the plant. ... Vanda orchids adorn thick moss-covered silos.

Romani grows vanda orchids, the showiest of all orchid species, with blooms the size of saucers and look-at-me shades of violet, magenta, purple, neon yellow, coral and fireball orange. Subtle ...

In an adjoining gallery called the Silver Garden, vanda orchids are arranged almost as an art installation, more than 200 aloft on wires in a handful of intensely blue varieties. The roots hang ...

Singapore’s national flower, the Papilionanthe "Miss Joaquim," is a Frankenstein orchid—a mix of two species, Vanda Hookeriana and V. teres, hybirdized in the 1890s by an Armenian ...

He also takes a moment to point out endangered orchids such as the blue vanda coerulea. ... In his California home, he has 24 orchid plants. “They’re all white phalaenopsis.

The Vanda coerulea, also known as blue orchid or Blue Vanda, was first identified in 1847. ... The South-east Asian nation is reputed to be home to more than 1,000 types of orchids.

The orchid family (Orchidaceae) is oldest and largest flowering plant family on earth with about 28,000 species! They come in every color, size, and shape imaginable and are typically not more ...