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6. Give Your Orchid the Right Light. Orchids like bright but indirect light and temperatures between 70°F and 90°F. Kondrat says to put your orchid by an east window if possible, but south and ...
“Pruning like this makes an orchid rebloom in 8 to 12 weeks about 50 percent of the time.” The other way to prepare a monopodial for reblooming is to trim off a flower spike entirely if it has ...
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Angraecum, also known as comet orchid, [2] [3] [4] is a genus of the family Orchidaceae native to tropical and South Africa, as well as Sri Lanka. It contains 223 species . [ 1 ]
The flowers come from an axillary cluster that will have 12–20 buds. [7] The flowers are greenish-yellow, with a diameter of 5 cm (2 in) and only have a slight scent. [ 5 ] The flowers require pollination to set fruit, but open in the morning and usually fade in rising temperatures of the same afternoon. [ 7 ]
Phalaenopsis (/ ˌ f æ l ɪ ˈ n ɒ p s ɪ s /), also known as moth orchids, [2] is a genus of about seventy species of plants in the family Orchidaceae.Orchids in this genus are monopodial epiphytes or lithophytes with long, coarse roots, short, leafy stems and long-lasting, flat flowers arranged in a flowering stem that often branches near the end.
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.
This time the pollen packets get stuck to the stigma as the bee is escaping, and after a while the orchid will produce a seed pod. According to Anthony Huxley, the fluid produced by the two glands which fill the bucket contain an intoxicating substance. [3] These flowers are among the largest in the Orchid Family.