Monday, September 6, 2010

An overview of the popular types Orchid

In nature, there are over 20,000 different species of orchids, but once all artificial hybrids out there, the number increases to hundreds of thousands. Orchids seem designed to produce the ultimate in variety.

The system is available in all shapes, looks like the flowers of all colors of the rainbow and the uninitiated, not some orchid species such as orchids. For example, there is one that looks like a Dutch iris. But to compliment the owners on their beautifulIris and probably get a dirty look! Others produce flowers, daffodils are similar, and others have star-shaped flowers, see nothing, as the orchids you see in books and magazines.

The most popular orchid is a call, the Phalaenopsis, or moth orchid. This is what you have probably seen sitting on a shelf in a store selling your Favorites. Phalaenopsis orchids are just about unkillable, why sell a good choice for the store, which willOrchids, and the novice who wants to grow them.

Phalaenopsis orchids are orchids arboreal, which means that they do not grow in soil. Instead, they lie on the bark of a tree and be away from his tribe or grow along the branches. You are a parasite very nice.

Another popular type of orchid is the orchid Cattleya. This is the type of orchid, many people turn in corsets. His striking large flowers is perfect for pinning a dress and accent of a ladylooks like.

Cattleya was discovered almost by accident one day, in the nineteenth century, when William Cattleya received a shipment of botanicals and began to unpack. Instead of the usual type of packaging material, someone had surrounded his evidence with what appeared to be dead Cattleya orchids.

Curious to factory, tried to bring them to life and have an obligation. A few years later, quite surprisingly, scored and took the beautiful flowersOrchids grow world by storm. This type of orchid bouquet does not lie in a turn, and its flowers last long after being removed from the mother plant.

Different types of orchids you feel to be mentioned:

Angraecum
Brassavola
Brassia
Cattleya
Cymbidium
Dendrobium
Encyclia
Epidendrum
MrsSlipper
Masdevallia
Maxillaria
Miltonia
Miltoniopsis
Odontoglossum
Oncidium
Phalaenopsis
Vanda
Vanilla
Zygopetalum
Anoto
Rhynchostylis
Anguloa
Ascocentrum
Brassavola
Bulbophyllum
Chysis
Cycnoches
Doritis
Laelia
Lockhart
Lycaste
Paphiopedilum
Pleurothallis
Renanthera
Rodriguez
Sophronitella

Do not be fooled, the strange name.

You may be strange or uncomfortable - with the exception of Vanilla Yes, that's where we get sound commercial vanilla - but they are nothingbut. All the beautiful flowers Orchids produce some wonderful fragrances, and most kinds are picky wonderful to have around to sit at home or greenhouse.

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