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The flowers look like large butterflies with brightly colored bodies (the lip, a modified petal), very long antennae-like petals, and outspread wing-like dappled yellow and brown sepals. The butterfly orchid is rumored to have started the European "Orchidmania" of the 19th century. [citation needed]
This is the largest-flowered orchid species in Europe, growing to 60 cm tall [5] with flowers as wide as 9 cm. [6] Before it flowers, it is distinguished from other orchids by the large size and width of its ovate leaves (as big as 18 cm long, 9 cm wide), [5] which like other orchids exhibit parallel venation.
The beautiful, ruffled flowers can look like a dress in motion. Some of these are very fragrant. The deep purple and white flowers of Oncidium "Sharry Baby" have the intoxicating smell of chocolate.
Epidendroideae is a subfamily of plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Epidendroideae is larger than all the other orchid subfamilies together, comprising more than 15,000 species in 576 genera. Most epidendroid orchids are tropical epiphytes, typically with pseudobulbs.
Dendrobium Orchid. There are as many as 1,800 different species of dendrobium orchids. These orchids like to grow in small pots and often have tall, top-heavy blooms that require staking for support.
Cypripedium is a genus of 58 species and nothospecies of hardy orchids; it is one of five genera that together compose the subfamily of lady's slipper orchids (Cypripedioideae). They are widespread across much of the Northern Hemisphere , including most of Europe and Africa ( Algeria [ 2 ] ) (one species), Russia , China , Central Asia , Canada ...
The stem of orchids with a monopodial growth can reach several metres in length, as in Vanda and Vanilla. Sympodial: Sympodial orchids have a front (the newest growth) and a back (the oldest growth). [6] The plant produces a series of adjacent shoots, which grow to a certain size, bloom and then stop growing and are replaced.
Bulbophyllum is a genus of mostly epiphytic and lithophytic orchids in the family Orchidaceae. It is the largest genus in the orchid family and one of the largest genera of flowering plants with more than 2,000 species, exceeded in number only by Astragalus.