This mass of roots and small white flowers is Agreacum erectum. The species has been in flower for months and now it is mature flowers on and off throughout the year. The 1cm flowers are evolved for moth pollination in common with most species in the genus and are fragrant especially at night. This unusual […]

This remarkable orchid with enormous flowers (possibly the heaviest of orchid flowers) is Stanhopea tigrina. The plant showed is a ten year old seedling from our school propagation laboratory (it has been well worth the wait) and the photo with my hand shows the majesty of these flowers. Stanhopea tigrina is a warm growing epiphytic […]

This pleurothallis is unlike any others we grow with flowers that look to me like little sea creatures like little octopuses? The species is small growing with leaves up to 12 cm and the flowers held above the leaves on impossible looking thin filaments – a really fascinating plant. Each leaf produces flowers over several […]

A highlight of our warm Asia section is the startlingly bright pink flowers of Phalaenopsis pulchra. The flowers are unusually glossy – a real treat. This warm growing epiphytic species native to the Philippines, is a small plant which produces a few brightly coloured flowers successively on a short spike hat gives flowers  through the […]

This is one of our larger growing Stelis species with leaves 15cm long and 25cm flower spikes of large (for a stelis) flowers.   Stelis reginae is endemic to Ecuador where it is found in wet cloud forest at 1800m. We therefore grow the species cool and wet all year. It  has flowers with a […]