Simon Pugh-Jones
Website Role: administrator
Teacher in charge of the Writhlington Orchid Project
Website Role: administrator
Teacher in charge of the Writhlington Orchid Project
Our Warm Americas section is now awash with the flamboyant flowers of our early summer flowering cattleya species including the grand Cattleya purpurata. Cattleya purpurata is the Brazilian national flower and is wonderfully variable. The variety ‘venosa’ describes a range of plants with deeper pink flowers than are usually found (two varieties above) Flowers are […]
Xylobium variegatum is another of our fragrant orchid species with lots of flowers produced on short crowded spikes with appealing creamy spotted flowers with a deep red lip. Xylobium variegatum is reported as a variable species found from Costa Rica right through South America to Peru, and from warm lowland forests to cool montane forests […]
The genus bulbophyllum is full of intriguing flowers and Bulbophyllum mirum is a good example. This small growing Bulbophyllum species is native to forests in Malaysia and Indonesia where it grows at around 1000m altitude on mossy trees. We love it’s rather ridiculous looking flowers which are determined to be horizontal (very unusual in our […]
This little gem of an orchid is a miniature member of the Vanda family native to the Philippines. The long lasting flowers look like little birds in flight and are large for the size of the plant which is only 8cm across and in common with most cleisostomas has flowers that open successively along the […]
This morning I spotted delightful; flowers of Bulbophyllum thaiorium The early summer sees lots of bulbophyllum species in flower. Bulbophyllum species add real interest and diversity to any collection and this small growing species from South East Asia with masses of deep red flowers on a miniature plant is a real stunner. Bulbop[hyllum thaiorum is […]