Stelis benzingii is a medium sized members of the genus with 12cm leaves and long spikes with densely packed 6mm triangular flowers. The species is endemic to Ecuador where it grows in warm lowland forests although we have found that the species does equally well in either our Warm Americas or Cool Americas sections. It […]

Click here to see the Video of Saturday’s talk – Summer in the Orchid House. Thanks again to the brilliant team at the OSGB – do visit the OSGB website if you are not a member to find out about this great society. Thanks also to all those who joined as an audience and asked […]

Here is another of the species featured on Saturday’s live talk. Bulbophyllum is a wonderfully diverse genus and includes some of the largest orchid flowers in our collection as well as some of the smallest such as these on this intriguing species. When we first saw Bulbophyllum clandestinum in the wild, in Laos, it took […]

Thank you for all the feedback from the Live Talk on Saturday. We are pleased to say that we are already making plans for future on-line live talks, and including students in the events in future. We are planning a live talk (webinar) for the American Orchid Society, and so orchid project students will be […]

Another of our tiny flowered Pleurothallis species today. Pleurothallis limae is a Brazilian terrestrial species and we found it growing abundantly around Macae de Cima in Rio State in regrowth forest. We observed that it seemed to prefer growing in moss protected by scrubby regrowth, and made large mats of its heart shaped leaves. The […]