Orchid Species
Pure Botanical Heritage: Natural Orchid Species
Explore our collection of true orchid species—nature's original masterpieces, unchanged by hybridization. These are the wild orchids that inspired centuries of botanical exploration and continue to captivate serious collectors with their authentic beauty and fascinating natural history.
Why Species Orchids Matter:
- Botanical Authenticity: Pure species as they exist in nature, not human-created hybrids
- Conservation Value: Many species face habitat loss in the wild, making cultivation important for preservation
- Discovery Stories: Each species has a unique tale of botanical exploration and discovery
- Natural Adaptation: Evolved over millennia to thrive in specific ecosystems, from cloud forests to tropical lowlands
- Genetic Foundation: These are the parent plants behind many popular hybrid orchids
Natural Habitats & Origins: Our species orchids represent diverse ecosystems from around the world—misty mountain slopes in the Andes, humid rainforests of Southeast Asia, cool cloud forests of Central America, and rocky outcrops of Madagascar. Understanding their natural habitat helps recreate ideal growing conditions at home.
For the Serious Collector: Species orchids appeal to growers who appreciate botanical accuracy, natural diversity, and the challenge of cultivating plants true to their wild origins. Many species offer unique characteristics rarely found in mass-produced hybrids, including distinctive fragrances, unusual flower forms, and specific blooming patterns tied to seasonal changes.
Growing Considerations: Species orchids range from beginner-friendly to advanced difficulty levels. Each variety includes information about its natural habitat, which guides care requirements including temperature ranges, humidity levels, and light preferences. Some species are more forgiving than their hybrid descendants, while others require precise conditions.
Perfect for: Collectors building reference collections, enthusiasts interested in orchid evolution and taxonomy, growers seeking authentic botanical specimens, and those who value the heritage and story behind each plant.
Pure Botanical Heritage: Natural Orchid Species
Explore our collection of true orchid species—nature's original masterpieces, unchanged by hybridization. These are the wild orchids that inspired centuries of botanical exploration and continue to captivate serious collectors with their authentic beauty and fascinating natural history.
Why Species Orchids Matter:
- Botanical Authenticity: Pure species as they exist in nature, not human-created hybrids
- Conservation Value: Many species face habitat loss in the wild, making cultivation important for preservation
- Discovery Stories: Each species has a unique tale of botanical exploration and discovery
- Natural Adaptation: Evolved over millennia to thrive in specific ecosystems, from...
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This is an attractive epiphytic orchid endemic to Southeast Asia and the Himalayas. It produces pendant racemes with many neat little flowers. It’s easy to grow in intermediate to warm conditions and intermediate light. Plants are seedlings in 50mm tubes.Regular price $30.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Found in Papua and New Guinea and the Philippines as an epiphyte at elevations over 350 meters occuring on tree trunks as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with rather broad, strongly compressed, ancipitous stems carrying several, leathery, 2 ranked, at right...Regular price $24.90Regular priceUnit price per
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Common Name: Linden's Vanda [Belgian Botanist 1800's] Found in southern Mindanao within the Philippines at elevations of sea level to 500 meters as a small to giant sized, hot growing epiphyte. Seedlings in 50mm tubes.Regular price $19.90Regular priceUnit price per
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Aerides houlletiana orchid is native to Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in evergreen, semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests at elevations of sea level to 700 meters in partial shade. This variety is truly a show winner and easy to grow. This species produces...Regular price $24.90Regular priceUnit price per
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A small to medium sized, cool to hot growing, monopodial epiphyte from pennisular Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and northeastern Thailand in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests at elevations of sealevel to 1300 meters with a erect stem carrying 8, oblong-ligulate, rigid, thick, olive green...Regular price $60.00Regular priceUnit price per
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A medium sized, warm to hot growing monopodial epiphyte that is found in Vietnam and Thailand in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of sealevel to 700 meters with elongated stems carrying alternate, oblong to elliptic, apically unequally bilobed,...Regular price $30.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Common Name: The False Lamellate Dendrobium Flower Size: 1.5 to 2 cm Found in Sabah Borneo in lowland and hill forests at elevations around 700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm, erect becoming pendent growing epiphtye with simple, erect becoming pendent, clavate, terete basally,...Regular price $32.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Native to: Cuba and Jamaica. Schomburgkia lyonsii is found growing on exposed rocks in dry upland forests and valleys from sea level to 800 meters in elevation.Plant Size: Large. The erect pseudobulbs of Schomburgkia lyonsii are tall and cylidrical to tappered and have two or three leaves.Flower Size: 1.5 inches (3.75...Regular price $125.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Dendrobium moschatum, the musky-smelling dendrobium, is a species of orchid. It is native to the Himalayas (northern and eastern India, northern Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Yunnan), and Indochina (Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia). A whiskey-bottle flask containing about 40+ seedlings. Ready to be deflasked. The...Regular price $160.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Found in Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, southern China and Vietnam to the south on deciduous trees in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests at elevations of sealevel to 700 meters, as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing...Regular price $140.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Dendrobium lamellatum is found only in Java and is a miniature to small sized, warm-growing species with extremely flat green “canes” and broad, thin leaves that are clustered towards the apex. D. lamellatum blooms in the winter, late spring and summer producing few to several lemon yellow...Regular price $180.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Native to India, this is one of the best examples of this species around. Named for Walter Rothschild of Tring Park, England, 'Red Chimney' is perhaps the best there is with its First Class Certificate award from the AOS. A whiskey-bottle flask containing about 40+...Regular price $180.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Dracula woolwardiae is found in Ecuador as a small to medium, cool growing epiphyte in dense forests on the western slopes of the Andes mountains. It`s hairy and uniquely patterned flowers are quite the delight. On offer the orchid is flowering size, not usually...Regular price $110.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Found in Thailand, Vietnam and Hainan China in highland primary cloud forests in shallow, sandy soils among sandstone rocks often in the shade of low bushes at elevations of 1000 to 2600 meters as a large to giant sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial...Regular price $150.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Cymbidium mastersii is native to Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam. It is found growing on trees and rocks in evergreen montane forests at elevations of 900 to 2400 meters above sea level. It is a large sized, warm to cold...Regular price $135.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Found in southeastern Brazil as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and or lithophyte with conic-ovaid, dark green, longitudinally rugose, pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, lpicate, erect, coriaceous, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, channeled, petiolate base leaf that blooms in...Regular price $45.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Several fragrant, long lasting flowers grace this large sized, hot growing epiphyte from the island of Sulawesi and Java with elongate stems carrying several, linear, recurved leaves that blooms in the summer on a erect or ascending, to 10" [25 cm] long, several [10...Regular price $25.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Native to the cloud forests of China, this small to medium sized ephiphyte enjoys semishaded light and cooler temperatures when grown mounted. This orchid blooms in spring on a short spike with up to 10 white flowers. Plants for sale are seedlings not far...Regular price $25.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Common Name: The Green Phalaenopsis Flower Size: 3 to 4 cm Found in Sumatra at elevations of 700 to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing lithophyte or epiphyte that blooms in the spring on an erect to horizontal, simple or occasionally branching, to 16...Regular price $40.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Stenoglottis species, mostly terrestrial orchids (very occasionally epiphytic), are natives of southern Africa. Stenoglottis longifolia comes from Natal; its flowers are white to pale-pink with darker pink spots and they open gradually over a period of months on long flower-spikes. Once the flowers die down, new plants...Regular price $70.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Dendrobium henryi is native to North Vietnam and southwestern China. These plants grow near Sa-pa (Vietnam) at an altitude of about 1500 m and near Szemao in the Province of Yunnan (China) at an altitude of around 1200 m. They were also found at...Regular price $90.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Malleola baliensis (Robiquetia aberrans) is a monopodial hot to cool growing miniature sized epiphytic species found in Thailand, Java, Borneo, Bali, Sulawesi, Malaysia, Philippines, which grows on the trees of the deep humid forests from the sea level up to about 1200 meters. The...Regular price $25.00Regular priceUnit price per
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These plants are the pink and white forms of the Philippine species, Phal. equestris. These orchids are fantastic, given that once the spikes start flowering we have seen them carry on blooming for two years or more! A very nice miniature that is hardy to...Regular price $18.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Phalaenopsis difformis is native to Assam, West Himalayas, and Southeast Asia, commonly called, the dark brown phalaenopsis. This species blooms 2 times a year, once in spring-summer and the second time in winter. Flowers are very different from the normal phalaenopsis species flowers. The most striking feature...Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per
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