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 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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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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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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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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