Santa Cruz Orchid Society

F has been tricky with very unusual species! To keep the alphabet and joy here is Cymbidium Fliquet from our new National Collection of Cymbidiums. Registered in 1990 you can see the strong influence of sanderae. 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation #orchidalphabet🌱

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D is for Disa uniflora. These South African terrestrials enjoy life on our flood bench in Sussex with running water to replicate the conditions in nature. Do share any orchids with a D in their name! 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation #orchidalphabet🌱

Lepanthes nasariana in vivo. Flower, frontal view.

#NewSpecies!
Lepanthes nasariana
A newly discovered orchid from #colombia!

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#phytoKeys #LepanthesNasariana

#FAIRdata
#OA #biology #taxonomy #nature #biodiversity #conservation #botany #plants #orchidaceae #orchids

Pink and purple orchid with large white lip and yellow beard

Calypso bulbosa, our Fairy Slipper orchid, blooming on the Ceran St. Vrain trail #orchids #nativeplants

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 4 🌿

Today’s #orchid:
Dendrobium speciosum, grown by one of our HOS members.

Mara Strom brings in this tiny Barbosella dusenii. It received our Lancer Smith award. It’s for tiny orchids. A recent Barbosella dusenii was presented at the CSNJC which had over 400 flowers.

#orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #bluesky #houseplants #gardening

Oncidium fuscatum alba is rare - usually the colours are burgundy and white. It’s native range is from Panama to Peru and North Brazil. This was also found near El Pangui. 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation

Yellow orchid flowers with black spots and five slender green leaves.

#AlphabetChallenge #Flowers
#WeekVforVowels #Orchids
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A tropical lady’s slipper orchid with multiple flowers. Flowers have striped sepals, yellow pouch, and long twisted petals.

Paphiopedilum Temptation
(P. kolopakingii x philippinense).

This is a BIG plant. Size and flower count comes from P. kolopakingii, color and twisted petals from P. philippinense. #orchids 🌴 🌱

Laeliocattleya Frank Shadle
(Laelia x gouldiana x Cattleya loddigesii)

#orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #bluesky #houseplants #gardening

#orchids #orchidsky #bloomscrolling
Please enjoy my friend's 'wild' orchids.
Just out there doing their thing, living their best lives

What’s blooming today. #Orchids #canihaveaomemoreplease

Cattlianthe Final Blue ‘Royal Purple’
(Cattlianthe Blue Dynasty x Cattleya walkeriana)

#orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #bluesky #houseplants #gardening

A slipper orchid with a white dorsal sepal with maroon venation, green hairy petals with red margins, maroon stripes, and a reddish purple lip.

Paphiopedilum Faire Maud. And there's a second bud behind it!

#orchids #orquideas #santacruz

Stelis sclerophylla with a mass of flowers just spotted beside the road on a fence with farmland near Mindo 🌿

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Transformation of a splash cattleya #orchids

Oncidium tigrinum first bloomer for me, I have had this plant on my wish list for years. I'm thrilled to have it in my collection last summer. Can't wait to see the plant get more mature and bloom even better. #orchids #orchidaceae #flowers #greenhouse #nature #species #garden #gardening #plants

Brassocatanthe Memoria Nyla Jo Whiting
(Brassocattleya Rustic Spots x Guarianthe Guatemalensis)

It’s a hybrid I made a while back. Named after a friend’s mother-in-law who died of cancer.

#orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #bluesky #houseplants #gardening

Coelogyne Jannine Banks
(Coelogyne mooreana x Coelogyne flaccida)

#orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #bluesky #houseplants #gardening

Epidendrum spathatum (aka embreei) was seen in a cloud forest reserve near Mindo. This beautiful orange flower - often these bright coloured orchids are pollinated by hummingbirds 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation

Two orchid stand with a number of blue flowers growing against a reddish orange backdrop of the Australian bush

Thelymitra crinita - Blue Lady orchid

I’ve posted this picture before, but I’m posting it again because I love the contrast between the orchid’s blue flowers and reddish orange of the Aussie bush it’s growing in 💙🧡

#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #nature #photography

A Lycaste orchid growing in bark in a clay pot with leafless flattened pear-shaped pseudobulbs. Over a dozen lemon-yellow flowers emerging from the base of the pseudobulbs. The sepals are greenish yellow with green tips. The petals and sepals are a golden yellow. Nascent new growths are also starting to grow beneath the flowers.

Meeting this Friday! We're talking Lycastes.

Tim Culbertson will speak on the genus Lycaste, most especially, the smaller cooler growing varieties. These are wonderful plants to grow here in Santa Cruz.

Photo: Lycaste aromatica, grown by our Acting Pres. Vicky Smith

#santacruz #orchids #lycaste

Cycd. 'Leopards Gold' has huge, waxy yellow flowers with maroon (?) spots and large, curve pendulous column.

Some members' #orchids from last night's club meeting. One of the best show and tells we've had for a long time. Also a wonderful guest lecture about terrarium orchids and companion plants by Michael from Mizu Mori Tropicals and great snacks and treats. 10/10 evening overall. 🪴🌱

A no-ID #Vanda blooming today in #MyGarden. 🌱 #Orchids #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #FlowerReport

A Lycaste orchid growing in bark in a clay pot with leafless flattened pear-shaped pseudobulbs. Over a dozen lemon-yellow flowers emerging from the base of the pseudobulbs. The sepals are greenish yellow with green tips. The petals and sepals are a golden yellow. Nascent new growths are also starting to grow beneath the flowers.

Meeting this Friday! We're talking Lycastes.

Tim Culbertson will speak on the genus Lycaste, most especially, the smaller cooler growing varieties. These are wonderful plants to grow here in Santa Cruz.

Photo: Lycaste aromatica, grown by our Acting Pres. Vicky Smith

#santacruz #orchids #lycaste

9 purple orchid blooms, all open at the same time...which rarely happens for me. The plant has sword shaped leaves and needs repotting when it's done blooming.

All the buds are open at once...
Zygonisia Murasakikomachi x Zygopetulum Debbie De Mello 'Honolulu Baby'
#orchids #bloomscrolling #flowers #blooms #purple

Saw this unnamed Cattleya hybrid at the Tiny Jungle yesterday. It’s a cross between Cattleya Moon Festival-Snow Blind x Cattleya hybrida.

#orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #bluesky #houseplants #gardening

Vanda Ocelot Sangria #orchids

Paphiopedilum henryanym
Shared by Liz Charlton

#orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #bluesky #houseplants #gardening