Please help!! 4 types of rare orchids, what are they?

[bnegrete]

Hi everyone!!

All my family and friends are excited with my new found obsession with orchids!! I've got some gifts already, and I'm really new at this!!

The last one I got was a pot of a lot of different leaves, flowers, roots... a mess! It was acquired in a town near Mexico City that's in the woods, real humid and mostly cold. It was kept outdoors and not properly nursed. I think the guy that sold it just went up to the mountain and repotted what he found on the trees... When I started to untangle this, I saw that almost all the plants were ill!! In the media there were two little black ants, 2 snails (without shell) and several tinnier worms... I let them sit individually in Hydrogen Peroxide (that's when the tinny worms got out), I applied a home made all purposes spray from First Rays' Home Remedies with alcohol, cinnamon and soap, after a while I applied Listerine... and now I have them just sitting in plain water in individual glasses.

There are 4 different types and I don't know what they are, can you please help me?

Here are some descriptions to complement the pictures:

Type A: They have round pseudobulb like things at the bottom from where leaves grow, but also just have leaves. I have no flowers here.

Type B: this is the most interesting one!! It has leaves like any other plant, but from the base of the leave a really thin spike grows and has tiny flowers of three petals, doted, and with tiny peach like hairs. Beautiful!!

Type C: Has long upward leaves and a single spike with various ramifications carrying a lot of tiny buds, some have flowered into tiny white three petal flowers

Type D: it grows several round pseudobulbs in an upward line... and from them, a leave grows out. Also, no flowers here.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!!! I want to transfer them to S/H and I'm guessing these all of them have to be kept mostly shady with cooler temp, to emulate the forest, right?

Thank you so much in advance!!

Best regards!!

Bego

*I'm not being able to post all the pictures at once... I'll try posting them as replies

[bnegrete]

Type B...

[bnegrete]

Type C and Type D...

[AnonYMouse]

A-Oncidium alliance
B-Pleurothallid alliance
C-IDK
D-Bulbo I think

[euplusia]

I'll do my best:
Type A: Maybe Oncidium / Odontoglossum alliance
Type B : A Pleurothallid
Type C: A Bromeliad, not an orchid. Related to pineapple.
Type D: Maxillaria alliance.
Good luck with your plants. It is often easier and more rewarding to start with a strong well established plant.

[Ghosthunt64]

I agree with euplusia.

[Aussie42]

A is Oncidium alliance. I'm almost certain Type D is a Maxillaria.

I thought C looked suspiciously non-orchid and euplusia's suggestion of Bromeliad seems spot on.

Cheers,
Aus.

Type B I have no idea at all.

[nikkik]

I also agree with euplusia!

[AnonYMouse]

Oooo, a max didn't even come to mind,

[King_of_orchid_growing:)]

Type A: Definitely some sort of Oncidium, as others have said. Don't know which species until it blooms.

Type B: Definitely a Pleurothallid, as many have stated. Can't see the flowers all that clearly, so it's hard to know if it is identifiable or not. Many Pleurothallids have not been identified by science yet. Do your best to keep this one alive!

Type C: As "euplusia" said, is a bromeliad. Not sure what the genus is. Probably in the genus Aechmea, idk.

Type D: Probably Maxillaria variabilis.