What are some species of blue and orange orchids?

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They've got some orange flowered orchids.

As far as "blues", Den victoria-reginae is the only one they've got in "blue".

[Ducky87]

Oh, wow! Thank you so much! I'm always up at UW on my days off (take the bus up there) and will definatly have to take a side trip over there!

[Dart21]

I don't know why people keep thinking there are no TRUE blue orchids. Check out Cleisocentron merrillianium or Disa graminifolia.

They're just hard to get ahold of is all ;-)

[Paul]

As far as "true" blue goes, I don't either of the ones you mentioned quite count, Dart.

Disa graminifolia is really more indigo to "periwinkle" blue and Cleisocentron merrillianium is more teal than anything else. Most of the photos I have seen of either one in which the flower appears "blue", have a blue tint to the entire picture ... making their veracity suspect.

As Philip mentioned, some of the Aussie natives I think are considered true blue but they are very hard to come by.

[Dart21]

Ahh I see, my Cleisocentron I would consider to be a soft cerulean blue but you are right it is not TRUE per say, there are definitely other colors in there. It is one of the bluest I have encountered personally thus far, if you happen to know any of the names of the Aussie ones I would absolutely love to know!

Interestingly, my mother does a lot of traveling in particular to Latin America. She encountered and traced a very very blue orchid-royal blue. I almost didn't believe her at first and she said the flowers were extremely short lived but just spectacular. Wish I could find/figure out what kind it was :-P

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From her tracing of it, I can confirm that it was indeed an orchid.

[Vanda lover]

The Aussie ones are the only ones that I have seen that I would consider blue. I used to have an all blue flower garden and I would get pretty angry whenever I bought something that was supposed to have blue flowers but didn't. So often the colour on the tag and the description is wrong. They are purple.

[Dart21]

:-P that is the ultimate frustration, I can relate very well Vanda Lover

[Fairorchids]

For near blue, consider Vanda coerulea. Some clones are very close.

For orange species, consider:

Ascocentrum ampullaceum, which comes in multiple colors, including orange.
Ascocentrum curvifolium, which is more of a reddish orange.
Ascocentrum aurantiacum, ssp. philippinensis

I consider Ascocentrum miniatum to be more of a deep yellow.

[Vanda lover]

No, vanda coerulea is still purple to me, but people do see colour differently.I compare pure blue to the sky.

[Dart21]

Cleisocentron is pretty sky blue. Of course it depends on where you get it from. I've encountered quite a bit of variation amongst the species in the 'blueness' but some are truly sky blue. My newest one is yet to bloom... hoping that it's bluest one yet ;-)