Your Favorite Orange Orchid!

[Zabeta]

I love the Microterangis hildebrandtii - it's a miniature, and apparently quite easy to grow since mine is spiking and I purchased it in bloom less than a year ago. It has teeny orange blooms that are fragrant!

[Orchid Whisperer]

Potinara Elizabeth Palmer 'Sun Bulb' blooming in my office:

[Leafmite]

I would like to find a small, very fragrant orange Cattleya, too. Sometimes people post pictures of them but then they are not available.

Have you ever grown 'Pot Marigold' (Calendula officinalis). I know it isn't a fragrant orchid but the flowers are a lovely orange and it is a perennial if grown indoors in a sunny window. I usually save the seeds from the previous summer and plant a new batch in the spring but I have had a few that have been around for a few years.

An orange, non-fragrant orchid that is rather neat is Lepanthes telepogoniflora. It is small and doesn't take much room (you can grow this one in a covered jar or goldfish bowl). I justify growing it because it is so small that, even if it is not fragrant, it does not take up much room.

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Originally Posted by Orchid Whisperer

Potinara Elizabeth Palmer 'Sun Bulb' blooming in my office:

Beautiful!

[plantluvver]

Wow! I love the Potinara Elizabeth Palmer 'Sun Bulb'!

I did not find a source for it, does anyone know where I can get one?

[MrHappyRotter]

Being primarily a slipper grower, I have to bring up Phrag. besseae. It is the quintessential orange flower for me, though some varieties are more red-orange, peach, and/or yellow. The orange coloration carries through to many of its hybrids. There's also Phrag. dalessandroi, a close relative of besseae, that also tends to have orange flowers and is the parent of many orange flowered hybrids.

There are also a number of Phalaenopsis hybrids with orange to orangish flowers, many of which are fragrant. I think they tend to have Phal. venosa in the parentage.

[Orchid Whisperer]

Originally Posted by plantluvver

Wow! I love the Potinara Elizabeth Palmer 'Sun Bulb'!

I did not find a source for it, does anyone know where I can get one?

Mine came from Lowes - a bagged orchid! I've seen it for sale since I bought mine, so you might come across one at your local store.

If I divide mine in the future, I will keep you in mind.

[plantluvver]

Originally Posted by Orchid Whisperer

Mine came from Lowes - a bagged orchid! I've seen it for sale since I bought mine, so you might come across one at your local store.

If I divide mine in the future, I will keep you in mind.

Thanks!

I can always hope to find it at Trader Joe's. ...And as an orchid fan, I always have a lot of hope! Lol!

[Zabeta]

Originally Posted by plantluvver

Thanks!

I can always hope to find it at Trader Joe's. ...And as an orchid fan, I always have a lot of hope! Lol!

I got an orange NoID cattleya from Trader Joe's last year! Here's a picture. Maybe you'll find something similar this year!

[plantluvver]

Originally Posted by Zabeta

I got an orange NoID cattleya from Trader Joe's last year! Here's a picture. Maybe you'll find something similar this year!

Nice!

[estación seca]

Carter & Holmes is selling an orange Cattleya mericlone, Blc. Newberry Orange Crush ‘Contrast’. If you go to their site and click on Orchids | New Items you will find it. They have several orange-parent hybrid Cattleyas, but you never know for sure what you will get.