kinds of orchids orchid types flower plant plants

The flowers shown on this page are more or less the most popular because they look real good and are easy to grow and keeping. Just take care of your flowers and they will stay nice for several years. For orchid seeds, check right pictures.

-Vanda are easy to handle and can be grown indoor and outdoor in a warm environment.

Most vanda have pretty saturated colors, blue is a very rare and pretty clor. Vanda are popular orchids because of the flower shape and the colors.

Vandas come in about 80 different species, plus countless in hybrids versions. The flower shops usually have vanda hybrids. The vanda orchids pictures at right have been taken in a Thai orchid nurseries at Phuket read more about a Vanda orchid here.

Blue Orchid vanda

- Cattleya

In the early 19th century William Cattley gave cattleya orchids the name. Cattleya plants have one of the largest flowers, up to about 12 cm across. They are a little bit harder to grow and most flower only once per year and the flowers last only about 2 - 3 weeks. This has changed with the introduction of cattleya hybrids. Today's cattleya hybrids last longer and they bloom more than once per year and show the flower for more than 2-3 weeks.

Wild cattleya grow in rain forests of South America, in Argentina, Bolivia and Mexico. They also grow in the Andes from near sea level up to about 4000 meters, for more on a cattleya orchid read here.

Cattleya

Cattleya bloom

Cattleya culture

Cattleya care


paphiopedilum	dyakia

oncidium
oncidium

blue orchid seeds

cattleya seeds

White Vanda

Vanda and Dendrobium

Dendrobium picture

Pink flower

Yellow Flower

Vanda

Red flower

Thai nursery

orange flower

Nursery Photos

Pink flower

White Dendrobium Picture

White Orchid Bouquet

Orchids Orange

Flowers

Dendrobium Purple

Mokara Yellow

Mokara

Dendrobium

Cymbidium

Nursery

White Orchid

Most orchids are epiphytes, growing with their roots not in soil but hanging down instead. A few are parasites; without chlorophyll, they get nutrients from the tree or other they grow on. There is even one Australian orchid species who spends its entire life in the dark underground, they have a wide diversity and lifestyles. Most orchid plants--particularly the flowering plants possess both male and female parts, and so they can, in principle, fertilize themselves.

They belong to the class Liliopsida along with grasses and lilies, which both produce stamens in multiplies of three. The flowers typically bear just one fertile stamen. Furthermore, that stamen is fused with the pistil, forming a bisexual structure called the column. Pollen is produced within the anther at the apex of the column. Typically, the pollen grains adhere to one another, forming one or two small masses attached to a sticky pad, called the pollinarium.
Atop the pollinarium is the anther cap, a kind of hood that prevents self-pollination and is easily dislodged by an insect's body or a bird. Any visitor that comes in contact with the pollinarium's sticky pad ends up conveying the entire structure, pollen and all, to its next stopover.

Because the pollinarium attaches to any visitor that dislodges the anther cap, the anther is empty when the insect or bird flies away. In other words, the orchid flower has a one-shot chance of effectively attaching the pollinarium to a visiting pollinator, and after to another orchid flower. Orchid plants generally use color, shape and overall floral morphology to lure them. The whole sounds a little difficult but orchids can manage this without major problems. The flowers after all, are one of the most successful families of plants. Once pollinated, the ovary develops into a capsule filled with tens of thousands of very small seeds. Within each orchid seed is an embryo made up of just a few cells; the embryo is not provisioned with a food source. The orchid

Nursery	plants
Seeds

progeny are protected from the elements by nothing more than a paper-thin seed coat, leaving them vulnerable to damage and desiccation, and to attack by microorganisms.

The seed's exposure to microbial attack is not negative. To germinate, the orchid seeds must first connect to a fungus. Once the orchid does the connection with a fungus on a cell level, the seedling begins to pull essential nutrients from the fungus. That means, the seedling function as a parasite on the fungus. The orchid plant carry on with this until it develops leaves for photosynthesis, after the orchid plant manufacture food on its own.

Alternatively, the flowers may continue to feed off its host for the rest of its life, without ever producing green chlorophyll. This strategy is called myco-heterotrophism, and some orchids are living it. Genetic analysis shows that orchids -orchidaceae- are member of the asparagales plant, also agave, asparagus, hyacinth, iris, and onion families belong to this group.

The orchid family branched off this family long time ago, but since orchid plants have left almost no fossil record, determining a date for their origin is not possible, some botanists assume this branch off happen about 100 million years ago.