Orchids in Bloom

This mini-Cattleya is a hybrid of Sophrocattleya Beautfort and Sophrolaelia Minipet.  The plant is less than fifteen cm tall and the flowers...

Masdevallia eurynogaster is another species in the Saltatrices group of Masdevallias .  The flowers in this group are tubular, have glandu...

This miniature species belong to a group of orchids known as the Ornithocephalinae , all of them related to the "Bird's Head" ...

Purchased recently from Mountain Orchids, this seedling is blooming for the first time with three of its huge flowers and two buds.  Dendrob...

This tiny orchid is related to Masdevallia and used to be classified with them.  It is native to Ecuador, grows at high elevations and requi...

This is really a switch from my previous posts.  This is not a miniature, is not cool-growing, is not grown in my orchidarium, but I thought...

Here's another species in the Saltatrices group, i.e., tubular flowers with a "belly" and hairy glands on the inside of the t...