Pleurothallis ruscifolia is a medium sized plant that produces clusters of small yellow flowers several times during the year. This is an orchid we found growing abundantly in cool wet forest in Costa Rica on the Poas volcano at an altitude of around 1400m. The photo below was taken in Costa Rica by one […]

  The Genus Bulbophyllum includes plants with a very wide range of growth and flowering habits. One of the more unusual is Bulbophyllum clandestinum and when we first saw this plant in the wild in Laos it took us a while to be sure it was an orchid species. It grows along a long pendulous […]

Regular followers of 365 days of orchids will have noticed an improvement in photograph quality since we started in January 2017. The team in charge of photography includes Joe, Ben, Ed, Otto and Ed and they have developed their skills over the past 13 months. Most photographs are taken with digital SLR or Bridge cameras […]

Small flowers can have a really big impact and this is certainly the case with Pleurothallis trucata. Each spring plants produce chains of remarkable little globular flowers on top of leaves and for about eight weeks there is a real show in Cool Americas. The species is endemic to Ecuador where it grows from 1700m-3000m […]

  Paphiopedilum species are dramatic and beautiful orchids but unfortunately they are being driven to extinction by a range of threats.  In common with most Paphiopedilum species P. appletonianum is a terrestrial and grows in leaf litter and amongst boulders in warm forests from 300-1200m. According to its IUCN Red List Entry it has been […]