Category: Builbophyllum

This miniature to small, hot-growing epiphyte is found in the lowlands of Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, and Singapore, often on mangroves. It has garlic-shaped, irregularly four- to five-sided pseudobulbs with a single, oblanceolate leaf. Blooming in the fall, it produces a slender, reddish, 11 to 14 cm (4.4 to 5.6 inches) long inflorescence… Continue reading Bulbophyllum corroliferum ‘Flava’

This miniature to small, hot-growing epiphyte is found in the lowlands of Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, and Singapore, often on mangroves. It has garlic-shaped, irregularly four- to five-sided pseudobulbs with a single, oblanceolate leaf. Blooming in the fall, it produces a slender, reddish, 11 to 14 cm (4.4 to 5.6 inches) long inflorescence… Continue reading Bulbophyllum corroliferum

This small, cool to cold-growing epiphyte is found in Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo at elevations of 1000 to 2500 meters in mossy lower montane forests. It has close-set, oblong-ovoid pseudobulbs with a single, thick, elliptic leaf. Blooming from spring through fall, it produces an erect, 10 to 30 cm (4 to 12 inches) long… Continue reading Bulbophyllum coniferum

This small, hot to warm-growing epiphyte and occasional lithophyte is found in Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, and Luzon at elevations of 400 to 500 meters. It has a creeping rhizome with cylindric, conical pseudobulbs spaced up to 2.5 cm apart, each bearing a single, leathery, dark green, oblong leaf with a petiolate base. Blooming on an… Continue reading Bulbophyllum cleistogamum

This small to medium-sized, warm-growing epiphytic orchid is found in northeastern Borneo at elevations of 800 to 1000 meters. It has a creeping rhizome with ovoid to ellipsoid pseudobulbs spaced 2.5 to 3 cm apart, each bearing a single, erect, elliptic to obovate leaf with a petiolate base. It blooms on an erect, 10 to… Continue reading Bulbophyllum claptonensis

This medium-sized, warm-growing epiphytic orchid is found only in Sulawesi at elevations of 800 to 900 meters. It has ovoid pseudobulbs, each bearing a single, apical, petiolate, elliptic to obtuse leaf. Preferring light shade and a well-draining medium, it blooms in summer on an erect, 45 cm (18-inch) inflorescence with several tubular bracts. The inflorescence… Continue reading Bulbophyllum carunculatum

This small, cool-growing epiphytic orchid is found in Borneo’s montane forests at elevations of 1200 to 1650 meters. It has a creeping rhizome with ovoid, yellowish to olive-green pseudobulbs spaced 0.5 to 1 cm apart, each bearing a single, thin, elliptic leaf with a shortly petiolate base. Blooming in spring, it produces an erect, basal… Continue reading Bulbophyllum calceolus

This small, hot to warm-growing unifoliate epiphytic orchid is found at elevations of 50 to 800 meters in coastal forests and rainforests. It forms large clumps with narrowly conical pseudobulbs spaced 2 to 5 cm apart, each bearing a single elliptic leaf. Blooming from spring to fall, it produces a basal, erect inflorescence up to… Continue reading Bulbophyllum blumei

This mini-miniature, hot to cool-growing bifoliate epiphyte is found in Assam, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, and Malaysia at elevations up to 1700 meters. It has ovate pseudobulbs, spaced over 2 inches apart on a woody rhizome, each bearing two bilobed elliptical leaves. Blooming in summer and fall, it produces an 8 to 12-inch slender inflorescence… Continue reading Bulbophyllum blephiscatoides

This miniature, warm to cool-growing epiphytic orchid is found in Java, Sumatra, Bali, Borneo, the Philippines, and the Thai-Malaysian peninsula at elevations of 500 to 1200 meters. It has strongly four-angled, yellow pseudobulbs with a single, thin, oblong leaf. Blooming in summer, it produces a thin, wiry, semi-pendulous inflorescence, 7 to 11 cm long, bearing… Continue reading Bulbophyllum biflorum ‘Yellow’