Many of our Oncidium species are large growing plants with long flower spikes but this species is a charming little thing. Oncidium longipes is a Brazilian species and we saw it growing in the forests around Macae de Cima in our school visits to Brazil in 2000 and 2006. It is restricted to primary forests […]

Yesterday’s orchid was small, but todays is a tiny mini-miniature that wows with stunning flowers every autumn. Trisetella cordeliae has tiny leaves – just 10mm long – and short spikes with small (but relatively large) attractive hairy pink flowers. The flower spikes produce a succession of flowers over a long period. The species is endemic […]

We are entering the main flowering season for this floriferous little species from Ecuador. Stelis stevensonii is a vigorous small growing plant that produces multiple spikes of well spaced little flowers typical of the genus. It is endemic to Ecuador and lives in wet forests at around 1600m. This is a warmer habitat than some […]

This morning the Cool Asia section of our greenhouse is heavy with the unmistakable citrus scent of Cymbidium tracyanum. The scent is coming from this large plant hanging in the roof. The plant is from seed sown in the 1990s and takes us right back to the early days of the Orchid Project propagation laboratory. […]

For our 1400th consecutive daily orchid post, of a species in flower, I am pleased to celebrate one of my favourite Masdevallias. Masdevallia tonduzii is a small growing Masdevallia with very large flowers . The plant shown here is in a 3cm pot and so the leaves are 5cm long and the flowers 12cm across […]