Orchids A - Z
Testicle Plant?
Who would suspect at the sight of an orchid that the name translated means testicle plant? It comes from the Greek word "orchis", which means testicles.
This quirky name arises from the testicle-shaped root of the marsh orchids, which represent only one of many genera of the Orchidaceae, but are eponymous for the entire plant family.
Huge variety
There is a variety like no other houseplant. Iridescent colors and wild patterns, beguiling fragrances and ornately shaped flowers, which can only be a few millimeters or almost twenty centimeters in size, make orchids one of the most popular houseplants.
As a result, gardeners have been breeding new varieties since the end of the 19th century (more than 50 new varieties have been created at that time), making the Orchidaceae the largest plant family, with more than 30,000 species.
Aerides mitrata
- flower season: spring
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Angraecum leonis
- flower season: spring - summer
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Brassolaeliocattleya Alma Kee 'Tipmalee' AM/AOS
- flower season: spring - summer
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Brassolaeliocattleya Chia Lin 'New City' AM/AOS
- flower season: winter - spring
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Cattleya Pastoral 'Innocence' x percivaliana 'alba'
- flower season: autumn winter
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Cycnodes Wine Delight 'JEM' FCC/AOS (in Knospe/Blüte)
- flower season: summer - autumn
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Dendrochilum glumaceum
- flower season: winter
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Erycina crista-galli (syn. Psygmorchis, Oncidium)
- flower season: winter - spring
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Lc. C.G. Roebling 'Blue Indigo' x C. maxima 'coerulea'
- flower season: spring - summer
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Masdevallia herradurae - Sparset
- flower season: autumn
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Orchideen-Einsteiger-Sortiment
- flower season: whole year
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Paphiopedilum David Ott (Jgpfl.)
- flower season: spring - summer
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Paphiopedilum glaucophyllum
- flower season: whole year
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Paphiopedilum I'Ansonii
- flower season: autumn winter
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Paphiopedilum Lippewunder (2 Blütenstiele)
- flower season: winter - spring
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Paphiopedilum platiphyllum x supardii
- flower season: autumn winter
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Paphiopedilum sanderianum x Bel Royal
- flower season: winter - spring
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Paphiopedilum-Sortiment (3 knospige/blühende Frauenschuhe)
- flower season: whole year
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Psychopsis kramerianum (1 Blütenstiel)
- flower season: whole year
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Psychopsis Mariposa 'Green Valley'
- flower season: spring - summer
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Sigmatostalix radicans - Sparset
- flower season: autumn
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Vanda bensonii
- flower season: spring
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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