Catesetum Penang x Rebecca norton

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Catesetum Penang ‘Snow White’

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Capanemia superflua

This mini-miniature epiphyte is found from Espírito Santo, Brazil, to northern Argentina at 500 meters, growing on lichen-covered tree trunks and twigs. It has small, clustered, elongated pseudobulbs covered in papery bracts, each bearing a single, cylindrical, fleshy leaf. Blooming in fall, it produces a short, suberect to pendulous inflorescence, 4 to 7 cm long,… Continue reading Capanemia superflua

Calanthe pulcra

This medium to large terrestrial orchid is found in Laos, Thailand, Borneo, Java, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Sumatra at elevations of 120 to 1700 meters. It thrives in humid forests on decaying trunks and deep leaf mold. With small, close-set pseudobulbs and 5 to 6 plicate, acuminate leaves, it blooms in spring. Its erect, 50… Continue reading Calanthe pulcra

Cirrhopetalum strangularium

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Cirrhopetalum pingtungense X Bulbophyllum frostii

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Bulbophyllum xanthomelanon

This small, warm-growing epiphyte is found in Sulawesi’s montane forests at 1200 meters. It has a hanging rhizome with pseudobulbs spaced 1 to 2.2 cm apart, each bearing a single, erect, elliptic to ovate leaf with a shortly petiolate base. Blooming from fall through spring, it produces a single fragrant flower on a short, 2… Continue reading Bulbophyllum xanthomelanon

Bulbophyllum wendelianum

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This miniature to small epiphyte or lithophyte is found in Yunnan, northern Myanmar, and Thailand at elevations of 200 to 2000 meters. It has a creeping, branching rhizome with yellow-green, glossy, angular pseudobulbs spaced 4 cm apart, each carrying a single thick, leathery, rugose leaf. Blooming in spring, it produces a stout, rigid inflorescence 7… Continue reading Bulbophyllum wendelianum

Bulbophyllum wallichii

This mini-miniature to miniature epiphyte is found in Yunnan, Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam at elevations of 1000 to 2500 meters. It grows in cool to cold conditions with conical, rugose pseudobulbs that lose their two oblong leaves during flowering. Blooming in spring, it produces a slender, arching, racemose… Continue reading Bulbophyllum wallichii

Bulbophyllum virescens

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This medium-sized, hot-growing epiphyte is found in the Malaysian Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Moluccas, Sulawesi, and New Guinea at around 760 meters in elevation. It has widely spaced, furrowed, terete pseudobulbs covered by sheaths, each bearing a single tough, leathery leaf. Blooming in summer, it produces a long, many-flowered inflorescence with 6 to 8 foul-smelling… Continue reading Bulbophyllum virescens