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Orchid Forest Cikole, a beautiful orchid forest in the slope of Mount Tangkubanparahu. Pawon Cave , at Cipatat, a pre-historic cave was used when Old Bandung Lake still existed. Situ Lembang , a remote small man-made lake, located between 2 mountains, Mount Tangkubanparahu and Mount Burangrang, it has a tremendous natural scenery and unpolluted ...
This is a list of genera in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), originally according to The Families of Flowering Plants - L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz.This list is adapted regularly with the changes published in the Orchid Research Newsletter which is published twice a year by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Prosthechea cochleata is the national flower of Belize, where it is known as the black orchid. [53] Lycaste skinneri has a white variety (alba) that is the national flower of Guatemala, commonly known as Monja Blanca (White Nun). Panama's national flower is the Holy Ghost orchid (Peristeria elata), or 'the flor del Espiritu Santo'.
Orchids in the genus Chiloschista are epiphytic or lithophytic, usually leafless monopodial herbs with flat, green, photosynthetic roots radiating from a short, central rhizome. The flowers are arranged on long, thin flowering stems, open sporadically in groups and only last for a few hours to one or two days.
Dendrobium gracilicaule, commonly known as the blotched cane orchid or yellow cane orchid, [2] is an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid in the family Orchidaceae. It has cylindrical pseudobulbs, between three and seven thin leaves and up to thirty often drooping, cream-coloured to yellow or greenish flowers, sometimes with reddish brown blotches on the back.
Coryanthes, commonly known as bucket orchids, is a genus of neotropical epiphytic orchids (family Orchidaceae). This genus is abbreviated as Crths in horticultural trade. They are native to South America , Central America , Mexico and Trinidad .
Researchers estimate that one-third of the wild population was killed in forest fires in Indonesian Borneo in 1997-98. Unfortunately, many orangutans live outside of protected regions, putting ...
Many species are widely planted in the tropics as orchid trees, particularly in India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Nepal and southeastern China. Other common names include mountain ebony and kachnar . Before the family was reorganised, [ 6 ] a number of genera including the lianas of genus Phanera were placed here (see related genera ).