Orchids in my garden - Orchid Board

Waspdog · #1 08-21-2023, 01:00 AM

Hey folks,
Thanks for the warm welcome to the forum and the offer of help and assistance. I have probably several million questions that I would like to ask you right now so I’m going to have to constrain myself and start with a few reasonably simple ones.
I have a number of orchids that I am unable to identify. Firstly, none of them are “named“ they are all NOIDs, and I am quite happy about that. I just want to know what type they are, I think I know which of my orchids are Dendrobiums and Vandas, but others just don’t seem to fit into the variety of genuses that I am able to find on online. I guess that you will find my failure to identify what are probably very basic types amusing, but remember every journey starts with the first step.
What I will do is make a series of separate posts with each one having a different orchid. I would like any information that anybody can give me on it. Some will have flowers, but most will not, with that. Here is the first, it grows like a weed in my garden that has beautiful little flowers.

Waspdog · #2 08-21-2023, 01:04 AM

The next orchid may be a Vanda but hasn’t flowered for several years. I have several which just keep growing upwards but don’t flower. One is about to outpace a palm and is more than 3m high.

Waspdog · #3 08-21-2023, 01:16 AM

The third is a cute little plant that I have about 20 of and have flowered continuously since February. Only two have flowers now. The grow happily as epiphytes on palms. Flowers are a mix of white, and white and pink with some yellow.

Waspdog · #4 08-21-2023, 01:24 AM

The fourth and last one for today, which I have two varieties of, both have pink flowers but one’s flowers are slightly smaller. They flower spectacularly in March.

estación seca · #5 08-21-2023, 01:57 AM

The first and third are Phalaenopsis. Not sure whether the first is a species or hybrid, probably a hybrid. Third looks like Phal. equestris.

Second is a Vanda relative. The wide, short, blunt and widely spaced leaves suggest to me genus Renanthera, or a Vanda-Renanthera hybrid. If so it might not be getting enough light to bloom.

The fourth is a Dendrobium in section Dendrobium. It might be Den. anosmum, Den. primulinum or a relative. Dens. have a nectar spur or chin visible on the back of the lip.

You can read a lot about orchid species at the Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia (IOSPE), orchidspecies.com .

Waspdog · #6 08-21-2023, 03:05 AM

Thanks very much for your prompt reply. Certainly food for thought, no idea that the hanging one could be a Dendrobium. Also I have just twigged that Phal is an abbreviation for Phalaenopsis.🙄