Maxillaria sophronitis is a humming bird pollinated species from wet forests in Colombia and Venezuela. It is found from 750m to 1500m altitude and so we grow it in our Cool America section. We have two very distinct clones of this species. The one in flower now is small growing with 4cm leaves and 1cm […]

It is fortunate that the students in Orchid Project are observant or we could miss some spectacular events like the flowering of this miniature species.   Dryadella edwalii is a relative of Masdevallia is native to the Mata Atlantica cloud forests of Eastern Brazil. Students recorded Dryadella species on our 2005 expedition to Brazil on […]

Today’s species is miniature and the plant shown here in its 3cm pot has 4cm leaves and lots of single flowers on 4cm stems. Masdevallia minuta is native to Costa Rica to Ecuador and is a mini-miniature and we have a number of species with similar flowers (probably attracting similar pollinators) but this is the smallest […]

We are delighted that our favourite Phalaenopsis species is back in flower. Phalaenopsis mannii regularly flowers with us from January right through until July and despite the rigours of 2018 when it travelled to Paris in March (where it won the Best Phalalaenopsis trophy at the European Orchid Show) London in April, and to Malvern […]

Coelogyne multiflora from the island of Sulawesi just east of Borneo is one of our large, warm growing Coelogynes. The broad leaves are 70cm long but conveniently upright and the dramatic flower spikes form from the centre of new growths in the early spring. I challenge student to count the flowers each time the species […]