Orchids Plants
Orchids make a welcoming and graceful addition to your home.
Orchids plants. Orchidaceae is a member of asparagales an order of monocotyledonous flowering plants that also includes the asparagus and iris families. For instance phalaenopsis orchids are usually grown in coarse bark cattleyas in medium bark and young orchid plants are best grown in fine bark. Place orchids in an east to south facing window or room. Orchid any of nearly 1000 genera and more than 25000 species of attractively flowered plants distributed throughout the world especially in wet tropics.
Bilateral symmetry of the flower zygomorphism many resupinate flowers a nearly always highly modified petal labellum fused stamens and carpels and extremely small seeds. Orchids require shallow planting. In nature most orchids are epiphytes meaning they grow on other objects clinging to rough bark or even stone. Although most are categorized as part shade plants in their natural environment orchids grown indoors as houseplant typically need quite a lot of lighteither in the form of supplemental lighting or by being placed in a location where there is lots of diffused natural light.
These plants prefer bright indirect light. However you can follow some simple guidelines regardless. The showy orchids favored by most people are usually either phalaenopsis hybrids so called moth orchids or dendrobium hybrids. The ladys sandal orchid is a simple houseplant for the beginning orchid fanatic.
Insufficient light results in poor flowering. Paphiopedlium orchid image source. Orchids are beautiful delicate flowers that come in array of colors shapes and sizes. Flowers range from happy yellow pink or white tones to moody burgundies browns and near black shades.
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