Joe here again with another tiny orchid, Adenoncos parviflora. This little thing comes from South East Asia and Malaysia where it grows in low montane and hill forest and so we grow it in Warm Asia. The flower is tiny but very attractive as long as you have good eye sight or a macro lens. […]

Here is Amber with last week’s winning orchid – Pleurothallis truncata which will go forward to ‘Orchid of the Month’  – Thanks again to all of you who voted. 44% of the vote went to the winner and Dracula bella was second with 22%. There are some great orchids heading your way this week – […]

This fragrant orchid is found in Columbia usually at around 1000m and the most consistent sent identification we have had is adhesive tape. This genus has a pendulous flower spike that hangs down which means we have to hang them up when the flower spike appears. There is very little research and information on this orchid […]

Hi I’m Issy and I’m in year 8 at Writhlington school and I’m in the orchid project. This is me in cool Americas with todays orchid. I particularly like Pleurothallis restrepiodes because it is purple, it looks great from underneath, and really surprisingly it smells of wet cat. This species comes from Colombia, Ecuador and […]

I am Joe and my job has been to try and photograph out smallest orchid flowers. This Oberonia is possibly our smallest flowered orchid. We have it named as Oberonia helferi and it is found in Myanmar and Thailand.