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Epipogium Roseum Orchid This is a very delicate, beautifully colored terrestrial orchid. It is saprophytic in nature and grows on the forest floor on decaying leaf litter. It is unique by not having any leaves at all. It grows in semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests. The flowering season starts in winter and flowers are seen till January. It is very difficult to locate on the forest floor. Rosy Ghost Epipogium is a medium in size. A plant is grown in hot to cool place or a plant is warm growing. The plant is erect, leafless, terrestrial orchid with an ovoid, horizontal tuber giving rise to an erect. The height of the plant is 2 feet and hollow, fleshy stem. The stem is basally brownish and becoming nearly white towards the top and carrying a few distant bracts. The plant blooms on an erect, up to 80 cm long, many flowered inflorescences arising in the spring and summer. The plant blooms only for 8 days. Flowers are pure white cupped and looking towards the...

Malaxis Versicolor Orchid The botanical name of the orchid is Malaxis veriscolor orchid and common name of the orchid is colorful Malaxis. The orchids are from orchidaceous orchid family. The orchid is also known as Microstylis Versicolor, Seidenfia Versicolor, Liparis prichilus, Reheedei Versicolor, Reheedii Versicolor. It is a ground Orchid. These plants are native of the Western Ghats as well as Assam in Eastern India, and in Sri Lanka at elevations of 1200-2600 meters as a small size. Colorful Malaxis is a terrestrial orchid with the short stem, pseudo bulb ovoid. Leaves are 2 rarely 3-5stlkles. Growing of the orchid is in cool to the cold place. Flowers are borne in densely flowered raceme atop the leafless stem. Bracts are lance-shaped, deflexed. Flowers are small, yellow or purple colored. Lip is short wedge-shaped or kidney-shaped, with comb-like teeth. These plants are blooms in the summer season on a terminal erect 20-35cm long. The flower size...

Geodorum Densiflorum  Orchid Geodorum densiflorum orchid is commonly known as pink Nodding swamp orchid. Nodding swamp orchid is a plant in orchid family, is a medium to small, and found from India to Southeast Asia to Australia and some Pacific Islands. It is growing in moist grasslands, heathlands, sandy areas behind beaches, woodland, swamps, open forest, well-drained soil, monsoonal thickets, and rainforests as well as dry lowland forests at elevations up to 1000m. Geodorum densiflorum orchids are a leafy, terrestrial herb with crowded pseudobulbs 30-50mm long and 20-30mm wide. Nodding swamp orchid is having 1-2 dark yellowish pleated leaves on a stem. Leaves are 250-350mm long and 60-80mm wide with a stalk 2-8cm long. The flowers are not widely opening. Sepals and lateral petal are 11-18mm long and 2.5-5mm wide. The color of the flower is white to deep pink. The flowers are slight turns toward the ground. The flower blossoms between June-July in Asia and...

Peristylus Goodyeroides Orchid Orchids in the genus Peristylus are found in Japan, China, Magnolia, India, Indonesia, Indochina, Philippines, Malaysia, Guinea, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Borneo, Laos, Moluccas, Sulawesi, Sumatra, and Polynesia along streams in Hill Forest and at elevations around 100-2840m.  Peristylus are more species orchids like Densis, Laobii, Lantajeanis, Recharrdiyanus, Sahanii, and stocksii. Orchids in the Peristylus are terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, sympodial herbs with paired fleshy tubers and thread-like, unbranched roots. The stems are upright and no branches on a stem. The leaves are arranged in the rosette at the base of the plant or near the center of the stem. The flower of this orchid is small in size. The flowers are resupinate usually small, often crowded, white, green or yellowish and usually only last a few days. The dorsal sepal and petals overlap to form a hood over the column. The l...

Nervilia Plicata Orchid Nervilia orchid three species found in Kolhapur District of Maharashtra, India. Nervilia Plicata is a single leaf orchid. Botanical name of this plant is Nervilia Plicata belonging to Orchidaceae family (Orchid family). That Orchid has a single leaf. Leaf is appearing after the flowering stem. Color of leaf is dark green, mottled with purplish brown. Stalks are up to 1-2 cm long, blade kidney-shaped or round with heart shaped. The flowering stem is 8-5 cm tall with 1-3 flowers. Bracts are very small, shorter of the pedicle ovary, ovate. Sepals and petals nearly equal, spreading, narrowly lance-shaped, green. Flower blossoms in May-June month.  Lip is ovate when spread out, lower part whitish or rose-colored, embracing the column, with thickened yellow midrib, apex pale violet, minutely emarginated. The column is narrowed in a lower half. Ovary and flower-stalks are ridged. Nervillia Plicata is found in the Himalayas, from Pakis...

Tiger Jaw orchid Tiger jaw orchid is a rare orchid plant. Tiger jaw orchid is a common name for several orchids  and may refer to Ellen thus, native to the neotropics .  Grammatophyllum speciosum, the world's largest orchid, native to Southeast Asia, Maxillaria is native to the Neotropics . Rossioglossum grande, native to Central America.

Habenaria Crinifera-Doll Orchid Doll Orchid is a rare, medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial orchid with stem 10-30 cm tall. Sometimes it also grows on trees.  Leaves are clustered towards the base of the stem, oblong lance-shaped pointed or tapering. The flowering stem is up to 25 cm long. Flowers are white, towards the tip of the flowering stem, looking like hanging dolls. Sepals are 7 x 5 mm, ovate; petals 7 x 1.5 mm, linear; lip about 2 cm long, clawed, side lobes cuneiform, saw-toothed, tip thread-like; midlobe flabelliform, saw-toothed, tip with a tail. Habenaria crinifera is a species of orchid found in Asia. Habenaria crinifera is also called as Doll Orchid. Doll Orchid is found in Sri Lanka and South India. These orchids, which blossom in whole groups in late rains, are tuberous orchids with both epiphytic and terrestrial habitats. Flowers are white with smoothly-edged petals. The lip white 3 times as long as sepals...

Eulophia Ochreata  Orchid Eulophia is a genus of approximately 165 species of Orchids.  Eulophia Ochreata orchid is a species of plant in the Orchidaceae family, a subfamily of Epidendroideae family. This is species of orchid in the Cymbidieae Tribus subtribus Eulophiinae tribus. Golden-Yellow Eulophia is a terrestrial orchid, 20-30 cm tall. Pseudobulbs are 3-4 cm, ovoid conical. The plant has 2-5 oblong-lance shaped pointed leaves, 10-25 cm long. Golden yellow flowers are borne in racemes 10 cm long, on 20-40 cm long leafless stems. Flower stalks are 1 cm long, and so are the linear-lance shaped bracts. Sepals are 1 cm long, linear. Lip is 1 cm long, without the side-lobes. Golden-Yellow Eulophia is found in the Western Ghats in India. The flower is blossom in June month. These are usually terrestrial or ground orchids, although some are epiphytes  and rarely lithophytes . They are distributed in shady rainforests or in open scrub or woodland in the tropi...