Masdevallia Whiskers with autumnal orange blooms. After a very hot summer the Masdevallias are now recovering and blooming 🌿

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Gomesa crispa in bloom - this species with lemon blooms was part of an exchange with Cambridge University Botanical Gardens. Exchanging plants is an important part of our conservation mission 🌿

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Oncidium cariniferum is a species found in 🇻🇪, 🇨🇷 and 🇵🇦 at elevations of 1000 to 2400m. The petals curl forward as if in embrace on the curling spirals of floral bracts. 🌿

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More surprises as seedlings bloom. This lemon coloured Cymbidium is a new unregistered hybrid - Chian Tzy Mascot x Ave Maria x Christopher Friel from Colombia 🌱

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Bulbophyllum Sagarik a primary hybrid in bloom 🌱

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Cymbidium erythrostylum seedlings are beginning to bloom with an impressive number of 1-3 spikes. These petite Cymbidiums have large, pristine white blooms with a delicate yellow lip. 🌿

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Bulbophyllum appendiculatum with unusual flowers. The species grows in the wet tropical biome of Eastern Himalayas and it is first blooming for us 🌿

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Oncidium astranthum which is native to Ecuador and Peru with delicate green flowers. It has not enjoyed the summer so leaves are mottled but the flowers are beautiful 🌿

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Aerangis jacksonii is a species native to Uganda enjoying the tropical conditions in the Bulbophyllum house with cascades of white blooms 🌿

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Bulbophyllum lobbii named after the Veitch nursery plant hunter Thomas Lobb who introduced this plant to the UK from Java and it was named by the botanist John Lindley in 1847. 🌿

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Rossioglossum grande sometimes known as tiger orchid growing in the nursery 🌿

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Oncidium Eurydice back in bloom 🌿

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Miltonidium URG (Prince Vultan x miltonia spectabilis) 🌿

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Stanhopea Plaything (anfracta x florida) in bloom 🌿

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Bulbophyllum URG (lobbii x microglossum) a new seedling flowering 🌱

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Stanhopea Dachat (saccata x insignis) in bloom 🌿

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Bratonia Roderie always flowers late in summer - this is a hybrid of Brassia Orange Delight and Miltonia clowesii. 🧡🌿

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Masdevallia colossus is huge as its name suggests. First identified in 1978 and coming from high elevations of 🇵🇪 and 🇪🇨 it mimics Bulbophyllums as it smells to attract insect pollinators.

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Stanhopea oculata in bloom. This epiphytic species is native to a large range from Mexico to Nicaragua growing at high altitude in the wet tropical biome. 🌿

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