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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A miniature, epiphytic, Cattleya-Alliance orchid native to Brazil and Paraguay. In Brazil, the seed pods have been used as a source of flavoring, much like vanilla. This species does great in pots with bark or mounted onto slabs. It also has done well for...Regular price From $60.00Regular priceUnit price per
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This is a Brazilian miniature sized, cool to cold growing rupicolous, lithophytic, species found at elevations around 1300 to 2000 meters closely related to L. crispata with narrowly oblong or conical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, fleshy, rigid, elliptic-oblong, subacute, dark green leaf...Regular price $100.00Regular priceUnit price per
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A beautiful Southeast Asian species native to Eastern Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Is has a very strong and sweet fragrance, similar to Fruit Loops cereal! Flowers are colorful and bloom on pendulous flower spikes. What a great species! Plants for sale...Regular price $75.00Regular priceUnit price per
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It is a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with 3 cm between each, ovoid, multi-angled, olive-green, compressed, clustered, 1 - 1.5 cm long pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, broadly oblong-elliptic to ovate, fleshy, sessile to shortly petiolate base leaf. Frost's Bulbophyllum blooms in the spring...Regular price $100.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam on small trees in exposed locations of evergreen, semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands and primary montane forests at elevations of 700 to 1700 meters as a medium sized, pendulous,...Regular price $70.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Native to the rainforests of Brazil in the state of Espirito Santo, where it grows in dappled sunlight enjoying a wide range of temperatures. The colors can vary a bit but are heavily saturated in red and burgundy appearing as black. This orchid typically...Regular price $85.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Found in Brazil at elevations of 500 to 2000 meters in the Organ Mountains near Rio on lichen covered trees in forests as a small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with cylindrical pseudobulbs enveloped basally by scarious sheaths and carrying a single, fleshy,...Regular price $70.00Regular priceUnit price per
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A cool to hot growing species from Thailand, Malaysia and Cambodia. Bright, waxy yellow flowers blossom in the spring. These are deciduous dendrobiums, which means they grow in the spring through fall months, then in winter they drop the leaves on the canes they...Regular price $80.00Regular priceUnit price per
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This species has a wide distribution throughout Asia, which includes the Chinese Himalayas, Hainan, China, Assam, India, eastern Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.During the winter months, water sparingly and avoid fertilizing until new growth emerges in the spring. After blooming, resume fertilizing and...Regular price $100.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Aerides rosea is a medium to large sized, hot to cool growing, monopodial epiphyte or lithophyte with clumping pendulous stems carrying several ligulate leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a racemose or rarely branched, 60 cm long, densly many [20 to...Regular price $75.00Regular priceUnit price per
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On offer a very healthy and mature flowering size orchid which is not available all the time. This species occuring in Hainan China, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar and Laos in open forests on tree trunks at elevations of 700 to 1500 meters...Regular price $85.00Regular priceUnit price per
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A beautiful species from South East Asia that can send out several sprays of flowers in the spring to early summer. Keep dry in the winter season and start to water in the spring for best flower results. The plants for sale are currently...Regular price $85.00Regular priceUnit price per
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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 low down on trees often near or on branches overhanging stream banks at elevations of sealevel to 200 meters that produces highly fragrant...Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Perhaps one of the most beautiful of the Coelogyne with white flowers and a chocolate-red lip, native to the Philippines. Described recently in 2001. Up to 20-inch-long pendulous flower spikes that produce one flower at a time on a zig-zag pattern, extending slightly each...Regular price $40.00Regular priceUnit price per
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This is the rare color form of a species native to various regions in Mexico, Central America, and South America. Widespread species like this one are typically easy to grow. This orchid prefers partial sun and warm to hot conditions, and it should be...Regular price $50.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Found in Borneo at elevations of 450 to 610 meters on limestone cliffs near waterfalls on huge mossy trees 20 feet up as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with oblong to obovate leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on...Regular price $40.00Regular priceUnit price per
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A lovely little leafless orchid from Thailand, India, and Burma. This unique, easy-to-grow Chiloschista has long-lasting flowers with a vanilla-like fragrance. Plants are seedling size on cork mounts.Regular price $65.00Regular priceUnit price per
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This is the rare yellow flower form of this section Polychilos Phal from Vietnam, Nicobar Islands, Malaysia, Java, Borneo, Sumatra, and the Philippines. This section of Phalaenopsis reflowers from the same spikes year after year so you do not need to cut the flower...Regular price $35.00Regular priceUnit price per
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A miniature species from the Himalayas, Assam India, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. This species is similar to Phal. lobii, but has slightly smaller foliage and flowers with a pink lip. They also have a slight fragrance of burnt matches, with some sweet tones as...Regular price $38.00Regular priceUnit price per
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Dendrobium primulinum sp. is commonly known as the Primrose Yellow Dendrobium. Found in Assam, Himalayas, Nepal, Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, China and Vietnam, 1 to 2, fragrant flowers that arise from nodes along the leafless canes in spring and needs lots of water and...Regular price $80.00Regular priceUnit price per
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This small to medium sized, hot growing, epiphytic species is found in the Philippines at elevations below 100 meters with an erect or ascending stem enveloped by imbricating leaf sheaths and carrying elliptic, obovate to oblong-elliptic, fleshy, acute or obtuse leaves and likes a...Regular price $40.00Regular priceUnit price per
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These plants are the predominantly white forms of the Philippine species, Phal. equestris, with the occasional light hint of pink in the lip. These orchids are fantastic, given that once the spikes start flowering we have seen them carry on blooming for two years or...Regular price $35.00Regular 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 established.Regular price $200.00Regular priceUnit price per
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This is the darkest form of the delenatii, sometimes called 'dunkel' or 'vinicolor', known for their darker foliage and nice cherry red pouch color. Once the flowers have been open for several days, they will have a slight scent of rose. The foliage is...Regular price From $200.00Regular priceUnit price per
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