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 species is a small sized, hot growing, pendant growing epiphyte from Borneo in shady, humid, lowland and swampy riverine forests. Produces highly fragrant citrus scented flowers open at a time. The inflorescence on older plants can rebloom year after year so do not...Regular price $30.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Phalaenopsis cornu-cervi 'Red' is a rare, warm-growing orchid with glossy, deep red flowers, often with a contrasting yellow or white lip. It blooms on long, flattened flower spikes that can be left on the plant for sequential blooming. To care for it, provide bright, indirect light,...Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Found in southcentral China, Malaysia and Vietnam in primary montane forests on coffee plants at elevations of 1000 to 1600 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte that blooms in the spring with several fragrant flowers on a pendant 6" [15 cm] long,...Regular price $55.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Found in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua Costa Rica and Panama epiphytically on trees in open forests and occasionally terrestrially in soil pockets ocurring at altitudes of sealevel to 1000 meters, as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing species...Regular price $55.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Dendrobium capituliflorum is a small orchid species, also called the White Bottle-Brush Orchid, native to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It is an epiphyte or lithophyte that grows up to 25 cm tall, has green and white flowers in dense, ball-like clusters, and needs...Regular price $180.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Found in New Guinea in lowland and hill forests at elevations around 200 meters as a medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte with slender, elongated, flexuous, elliptic in cross-section stems enveloped by tubular leaf bearing sheaths and carrying oblong to lanceolate, fleshy, midvein...Regular price $110.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Found in the Philippines at elevations up to 500 meters as a nice, small sized, warm to hot growing epiphytic plant with a terete pseudobulb and carrying a tough, linear-falcate leaf, it flowers arise from the dry, brown sheaths at the base of the...Regular price $90.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Dendrobium dearei is found in the Borneo and the Philippines. It grows in coastal forests at altitudes of 60 to 100 meters above sea level. It is a medium to large sized, hot growing epiphytic species with erect, slightly thicker above, sulcate, leafy throughout,...Regular price $110.00Regular priceUnit price per
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A beautiful representative from the Philippines with huge fantastic flowers, from the section Nigrohirsute, leafy upright canes to 4', striking snow white 4" blooms, large bilobed white lip with a dark purple throat and side lobes, very long lasting flowers! Plant for sale is...Regular price $135.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Paph philippinense is a popular long-petaled multifloral Paph species. It can have up to 7 flowers per inflorescence and makes a beautiful display plant. Plant on sale is very healthy and advanced size plant.Regular price $235.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Paph philippinense is a popular long-petaled multifloral Paph species. It can have up to 7 flowers per inflorescence and makes a beautiful display plant. Plant on sale is very healthy advanced size plant.Regular price $235.00Regular priceUnit price per
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This species from Borneo is deemed the 'King of Paphs' due to its majestic appearance and wide-spread petals. It comes from Borneo and does best in intermediate to warm environments. Paphiopedilum rothschildianum is the ‘King of Paphs’. Its huge, stately flowers always draw attention at shows....Regular price $275.00Regular priceUnit price per
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This species from Borneo is deemed the 'King of Paphs' due to its majestic appearance and wide-spread petals. It comes from Borneo and does best in intermediate to warm environments. Paphiopedilum rothschildianum is the ‘King of Paphs’. Its huge, stately flowers always draw attention at shows....Regular price $250.00Regular priceUnit price per
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This species from Borneo is deemed the 'King of Paphs' due to its majestic appearance and wide-spread petals. It comes from Borneo and does best in intermediate to warm environments. Paphiopedilum rothschildianum is the ‘King of Paphs’. Its huge, stately flowers always draw attention...Regular price $230.00Regular priceUnit price per
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This species from Borneo is deemed the 'King of Paphs' due to its majestic appearance and wide-spread petals. It comes from Borneo and does best in intermediate to warm environments. Paphiopedilum rothschildianum is the ‘King of Paphs’. Its huge, stately flowers always draw attention...Regular price $275.00Regular priceUnit price per
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This has been one of the most spectacular Paphiopedilum species discovered in the last few years. This species that belongs in the parvisepalum group, is native to Vietnam, and has flowers similar to Paph. delentii, but they are larger and more deeply colored, with...Regular price From $260.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Native to Thailand and Malaysia, this rare diminutive species is in the genetic background of all modern complex white Paph. hybrids. This orchid is more tolerant of salts and minerals than most other Paphiopedilum, due to the fact that it grows on seaside limestone...Regular price $215.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Found in the Philippines at elevations of sea level to 500 meters as a small sized, hot to just warm growing epiphyte with close set pseudobulbs carrying a single, quite leathery, petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, basal, to 7.2" [to 18...Regular price $100.00Regular priceUnit price per
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A medium to large sized, lithophytic, cold to warm growing species that is found growing on mossy, limestone cliffs at 1400 meters in Luzon, Philippines with clustered, erect, or arching, long, cane-like, often fractiflex, ridged stems carry several, oval, pale green, deciduous, shiny, leathery,...Regular price From $200.00Regular priceUnit price per
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This is a Collector's Cattleya species plant! Cultivation of Catleya amethystoglossa is quite simple. It likes ventilation, humidity, as well as a lot of indirect light (that is, no sunlight directly on the plant) and environments with a temperature between 18 ° and 25...Regular price $100.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Dendrobium ellipsophyllum is widely distributed in most areas of Southeast Asia. These plants are found near Moulmein (Myanmar), in most areas of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, the Dalat region of Vietnam and the Yunnan Province in southwestern China. In Thailand, they were encountered at heights...Regular price $115.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Miniature to small-sized species from Vietnam. Light silver/green sulcate pseudobulbs produce several 1.5" flowers. Beautiful, fragrant, waxy and long-lasting! Easy to grow and flower. The flowers are colored in pink with white center overlaid in green and have a dark burgundy, mahogany lip. The...Regular price $75.00Regular priceUnit price per
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A beautiful species from Mexico, Central America and Panama. The picture does not do justice to the massive size of the plant and flower. They grow pendulously (leaves drooping down about 4 feet) and produce huge flowers that are 5 inches across and 7...Regular price $100.00Regular priceUnit price per
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