One of our smaller growing and flowering bulbophyllums is this species native to Malaysia, Java and Borneo. We grow the species mounted and it produces dangling stems of small single leaved pseudobulbs and flowers several times a year from the base of the pseudobulbs. The flowers are small but an attractive dark red and they […]

  We have had at least one Gongora in flower all this year and so it is time to post another species. Gongora bufonia is a medium sized plant but one that produces lots of long flower spikes. The flowers are smallish but give a great display. The species is found in Colombia and Brazil […]

This is a Brazilian terrestrial species and we found it growing abundantly around Macae de Cima in Rio State in regrowth forest. It seemed to prefer growing in moss protected by scrubby regrowth and made large mats of its heart shaped leaves in an area of regrowth where the forest had burnt about twenty years […]

Yesterday was a very enjoyable and productive day working with our partners at The Eden Project. Hettie (Team leader for the tropical biome) put together a great program of meetings to help plan future collaborations, and we were also joined by Andrew Barker our partner from the Dyson Foundation. We started the day with Hettie […]

This species is a real miniature with 5mm leaves along a creeping rhizome and relatively large flowers single produced in profusion. Barbosella australis is native to Southern Brazil (australis means ‘southern’ and doesn’t refer to Australia – the southern land) and we have seen related species in Brazil at around 1200m in primary forest where […]