Fragrant Orchids
Fragrant orchids are not so rare in the orchid world. Many flowers have a natural, pleasant scent.
Still others have a penetrating smell. Mostly, the fragrance of an orchid ultimately serves the better preservation of the species, because it is imitating or attracting a pollinating insect. When attracting nature amazing things can often come up. For example, a warning smell of an injured insect is mimicked. As a result, wasps are attracted to scent the apparently easy prey.Then they pollinate the flowering and so the progeny is secured.
Special hints and tips for fragrant orchids
An orchid flower exudes pheromone. These are sex hormones from insects. For example, the fragrance orchid flips the insect into a female willing to mate and the male insect falls for it and pollinates the flower. The orchid gardener takes advantage of the scent properties and deliberately intersects fragrant varieties, creating interesting new varieties whose above-average flowering and growth properties are combined with a pleasant fragrance.

Aerangis mystacidii
- flower season: summer - autumn
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Aerides mitrata 'alba'
- flower season: spring
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Angraecum calceolus
- flower season: spring - summer
- 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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Angraecum scottianum (Jgpfl.)
- flower season: summer - autumn
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Brassavola glauca (Jgpfl.)
- flower season: spring
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Brassavola glauca - Sparset
- flower season: spring
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Brassavola nodosa
- flower season: spring - summer
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Brassavola perrinii (im sterilen Glas)
- flower season: spring - summer
- temperature: cool - moderate (12 - 18 °C)
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Brassia keiliana
- flower season: summer
- temperature: moderate (16 - 20 °C)
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Bulbophyllum fletcherianum 'Miss Floralia' (Jgpfl.)
- flower season: spring - summer
- temperature: warm (20 - 24 °C
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Bulbophyllum graveolens
- flower season: spring
- temperature: moderate (16 - 20 °C)
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Bulbophyllum Louis Sander
- flower season: autumn winter
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Bulbophyllum nymphopolitanum
- flower season: winter
- temperature: warm (20 - 24 °C
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Bulbophyllum odoratissimum
- flower season: spring - summer
- temperature: moderate (16 - 20 °C)
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Burrageara Nelly Isler 'Orange' (1 Rispe)
- flower season: whole year
- temperature: moderate (16 - 20 °C)
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Burrageara Nelly Isler (2 Rispen)
- flower season: whole year
- temperature: moderate (16 - 20 °C)
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Catasetum Portagee Star x Ctsm. Lucis 'Dana's Bird of Paradise'
- flower season: spring - summer
- temperature: warm (20 - 24 °C
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Cattleya bicolor (Jgpfl., frisch getopft)
- flower season: spring - summer
- temperature: cool - moderate (12 - 18 °C)
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Cattleya dowiana 'aurea' (Jgpfl.)
- flower season: summer - autumn
- temperature: warm (20 - 24 °C
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Cattleya gaskelliana
- flower season: spring - summer
- temperature: warm (20 - 24 °C
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Cattleya gaskelliana 'alba'
- flower season: summer - autumn
- temperature: cool - moderate (12 - 18 °C)
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Cattleya gaskelliana 'coerulea'
- flower season: spring - summer
- temperature: warm (20 - 24 °C
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Cattleya granulosa 'Bernsteinzimmer'
- flower season: spring - summer
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Cattleya intermedia 'alba'
- flower season: spring - summer
- temperature: cool - moderate (12 - 18 °C)
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Cattleya intermedia 'aquinii'
- flower season: spring - summer
- temperature: cool - moderate (12 - 18 °C)
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Cattleya intermedia 'coerulea'
- flower season: spring - summer
- temperature: cool - moderate (12 - 18 °C)
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Cattleya jenmannii (Jgpfl.)
- flower season: summer - autumn
- temperature: warm (20 - 24 °C
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Cattleya labiata 'alba' (Jgpfl.)
- flower season: autumn winter
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Cattleya labiata 'coerulea' (Jgpfl.)
- flower season: autumn winter
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Cattleya labiata 'semi-alba'
- flower season: autumn winter
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Cattleya labiata (Jgpfl.)
- flower season: autumn winter
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Cattleya leopoldii 'alba'
- flower season: summer - autumn
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Cattleya leopoldii 'coerulea'
- flower season: summer - autumn
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Cattleya leopoldii 'Schokoladenprinz SM/DOG' x leopoldii 'Dark Prince' (Jgpfl.)
- flower season: summer - autumn
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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Cattleya leopoldii 'semi-alba'
- flower season: summer - autumn
- temperature: moderate - warm (18 - 22 °C)
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