Hello everybody I'm new to orchids I've been doing it for about a year and a half at the most I've never seen one like this can anybody tell me what it is please and thank you
Encyclia was my first guess too but man that's a seriously ugly backbulb. Is that spent flower spike to the right from a different plant on the floor?.....hard to tell but if it's on the plant in question then it's not encyclia.
Another possibility could be a coelogyne.
Yes that spent spike is from a oncidium orchid I picked up two rescue orchids from Lowe's today it's kinda my new hobby the oncidium is in ok shape a little dehydrated and I need to change the potting media I think I'm going to change it to lava rock. The one in the picture I put it in lava rock with a little tiny bit of moss right under the roots just to help them stay moist because there wasn't many roots left that were worth much