2Growing throughout Asia in evergreen broad leaved forests, coniferous forests, and grassy places. Grow cool to cold in a terrestrial mix. They can be planted out in the garden in many locations as well. Winter rests are required.
2a typical Brassavola which can grow upright, pendulous or both, 10` bulbs topped with terete deeply grooved 12` leaves, short spikes with clusters of up to 10 very showy 3` blooms, linear sepals and petals are yellowish with an elyptic pure white lip, center is apple green, very fragrant easy growing spring bloomer
2This beautiful Brassavola from Brazil, is an easy grower with fragrant flowers mostly at night. They do require a drier winter, but this does not mean an extended drier period. Just allow your plants to slightly dry between waterings. Slightly cooler nights during this time also helps with spring flowering.
2robust plant, flower spike is 2`+, spidery 5` to 8` flowers arranged in two vertical rows, green-spotted brown blooms with yellowish lip spotted purple, can bloom autumn and spring, very beautiful and fragrant
2easy growing plant from `down under` with 6` paddle-like leaves borne along a wandering rhizome, charming single 1-1/2` blooms appear at any time of year ; the pale yellow sepals and petals are covered in showy red spots; column and anther cap are bright yellow; small mobile lip is spotted on the edges curling back behind the edges of the lateral sepals, pleasant fragrance is both sweet and musky
2an insanely gorgeous Bulbo, 1` bulbs widely spaced along a meandering rhizome, each topped with a single leathery 6` matte green leaf, 7` spikes carry an umbel of up to 6 stunning 2` slightly cupped creamy yellow blooms; bow-legged lateral sepals are boldly striped red, the dorsal sepal and petals have radiating lines of red polka dots and a pronounced peachy tongue-like rocking lip
2this bulbophyllum has bizarre 1-1/2` flowers that look more like little animals than plants, and smell like cherry cough syrup ; greenish-bronze sepals and petals are covered with red spots; lateral sepals are swept back while the dorsal sepal and petals curl towards the black lip which rocks both side-to-side as well as back and forth; freely branching rambling rhizome produces 1` bulbs which are topped by a single 5` long narrow leaf
2an awesome miniature Bulbo with 3/4` fat squatty wrinkled purple bulbs spaced 1/2` apart on a creeping rhizome, each topped with a 1` dark green oval shiny leaf, blooms appear in clusters from the base of the bulbs, the beautiful 1` flowers are a glossy dark red with a rocking red lip and resemble a Dutch wooden shoe.
2a very beautiful large flowered Bulbo with clumping 2` bulbs topped with a single 12` large paddle shaped light green leaf, 12` erect spikes emerge from the base of the bulbs, producing up to 8 flowers which open in succession over several months, the 3` yellow blooms open flat with pale red stripping and a prominent dark red long tapering lip
2While the flowers on this species is tiny, the foliage and the specimen it makes is beautiful. A must have if you like foliage and unique plant growth.
2Spectacular species with 8` flowers first discovered in northern Malaysia in 1912, not seen in the wild again until the recent rediscovery of a far superior population in southern Thailand with blooms up to 18`, this shade loving plant has 8` dark green leathery leaves atop a 1` bulb, semi-pendant 8` spikes bear clusters of long narrow delicately striped pale pink hanging sepals with a rocking pastel yellow lip