Red Orchid A Rare and Extremely Exquisite Flower

by Admin on February 25th, 2007

Red Orchid A Rare and Extremely Exquisite Flower

All orchids are exquisite. Their beauty always leaves one speechless and one never tires of admiring these wonderful creations of God. There are more than 25,000 species of orchid known to man today. They are extremely varied, and each variety has its own reasons to be admired. As a rule, the orchid flower has three inner petals that are outflanked by another three with a fourth one a little lower in a specific arrangement. You will also find that orchid mimic a great many animals in their adaptation to attract food, pollination or self-defense.

The Red Orchid (Red Moon Orchid) One of the Most Beautiful Orchids Known to Man

The Red orchid scientific name is Phalaenopsis corningiana. This flower owes its name to the mahogany color stripes that adorn its petals. The color combination sometimes has the yellow floral segments with the lip base colored deep red. This plant has not been hybridized because it does not fare too well in a green house, its life span there being less than 4-5 years. However, cross pollination with the red mahogany type and Phalaenopsis volacea, Phalaenopsis lueddemanniana and Phalaenopsis mariae has produced some amazing species, which are also most fragrant.

The Red orchid, they say, is a flower which deserves to be used as gift to the kings. Its beauty and elegance is rare even among the orchids. Though the Phalaenopsis are the most popular orchids for pot-growing, the Red orchid is part of this family; this flower is very rare because breeding this plant is quite difficult.

Generally speaking the family of Phalaenopsis is easy to cultivate and row in the greenhouse as it is a very unpretentious plant which grows well even in the hands of beginners. They have very strong roots and are adaptable to quite some variation in their ideal conditions, unlike the Red orchid which dies if not kept in the most ideal conditions.

This orchid family thrives when potted in fir bark rather the regular sphagnum moss common for orchids. The most common mistake people do with the plant is to rot its roots by over-watering it. The plants need just the right amount of sunlight never direct as this will burn the plant and create ugly freckles on it. At the same time, if it is starved of light, it will never flower.

It is common in this family of orchids to have three to four buds flowering at the same time. No sooner than the flowers fade, they should be cut off from just above the node. If things are optimal, a tiny baby orchid may come up in this spot after a while.

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Investigating Orchid Species

The term orchid actually refers to a family of over 24,000 plants that live in every climate, from tropical to the Arctic Circle. Some orchid species are vines, some are clusters of stems, some tiny, some gigantic. Generally, their blooms are symmetrical and they produce a pod of tiny seeds.

Though there are tens of genra (smaller subdivisions) of the orchid family, the most common orchid species for the home come from just four groups: Phalaenopsis, Cattleya, Dendrobium, and Vanda.

Phalaenopsis

This genre of orchids gets its name from the Greek word for mouth, phalaina, because these blossoms resemble an open mouth. Phalaenopsis grow stalks of leaves and a flower stem out of a bulb-like base.

The stem on most Phalaenopsis orchid species will produce several blooms, starting from the bud closest to the base. The bud starts small and spheroid, then it swells until it pops open as a five-petal flower with an open mouth at the center.

Cattleya

Cattleya orchid species are named for an English orchid fancier of the 19th century who grew the first of this genre known to Europe when he unexpectedly received them in a shipment of other plants.

Cattleyas are similar to Phalaenopsis except when it comes to the flowers. Each stem of a Cattleya will generally produce two to ten flowers, whereas a Phalaenopsis can actually produce many more flowers on one stem. The flower of the Cattleya also has five petals, but its mouth is a long tube, very reminiscent of a daffodil.

Dendrobium

The main difference between the Dendrobium orchid species and the other orchids above is the way the flowers bloom. Dendrobium flowers have five leaves and a mouth that may be shallow or long, but each flower is generally smaller. However, they grow on branched sub stems. Each flowering stem makes a smaller sub stem where the flower forms. The result is flowers evenly distributed around the stem just as hyacinth blooms form around the stem.

Vanda

Vanda orchids take their name from the Sanskrit word for one of the showiest orchid species in this category. To the observer, Vandas look very variable. Some have long, skinny, thin leaves, while others may have short, thick leaves. Some grow many blooms on one stem, others, a single flower. What unites all Vandas, however, is their large, extremely showy blossoms. If you see a corsage with a magnificent orchid, all multicolored and ruffled, chances are its a Vanda.

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