Order: Asparagales Family: Orchidaceae Genus: Phalaeonopsis Specific epithet: amabilis Scientific name: Phalaeonopsis amabilis Common names:

Butterfly orchid, Mariposa Description: Phalaeonopsis amabilis, commonly known as Butterfly orchid, is an epiphytic plant with short stem and pendant leaves around 50 cm long. The long, branched inflorescence is upright and can grow up to1 m long. The white flowers are almost round, 90 mm in diameter. The lip is three-lobed, with crosslike front-lobed,with thread-like appendages.

Order: Asparagales Family: Orchidaceae Genus: Dendrobium Specific epithet: anosmum Scientific name: Dendrobium anosmum Common name: Sanggumay Description: Denrobium anosmum is one of the orchid species with a powerful fragrance. This type of orchid can be found in the lowland forests including the Philippines. It requires moderate temperature and average amount of sunlight. Plants must be kept moist and fertilize during growth season. Its lavander flowers contain two burgundy spots on either side of the lip towards the inner base. Flowers can develop up to 5 to10 cm wide. The long, slender pseudobulbs reach up to 3 meters in length.

Order: Asparagales Family: Orchidaceae Genus: Aerides Specific epithet: odoratum Scientific name: Aerides odoratum Common name: Rice orchid Description: Aerides Odoratum, commonly known as Rice orchid, has fragrant dark pink flowers that blooms from June to July. It can produce up to thirty 4.4 cm wide flowers that are arranged in racemes form. Rice orchid is an evergreen plant with simple leaves. They are dark green and linear with entire margins. Aerides odoratum requires bright sunlight and moderate temperature to grow. It is best grown hanged in baskets. This orchid must be developed in a welldrained media such as tree fern fibers.

Order: Asparagales Family:Orchidaceae Subfamily: Epidendroideae Genus: Dendrobium Specific epithet: deari Scientific name: Dendrobium dearei Common Name: Sanggumay Description: Within the genus Dendrobium, white flowers are not a very common occurrence; therefore, they are among the feature that make D. dearei a valuable species and not only for cultivators. The plant is very bulky, its pseudobulbs reach up to 32 in /80 cm in size. They are thickly covered with leathery, durable foliage. The flowers measure 2.8 in/7 cm in diameter and are snow-white with a greenish gullet; they are arranged in a sparse raceme. This species is one of the indeciduous Dendrobium orchids, and therefore has a great demand for moisture and warmth throughout the year. D. dearei usually blooms between May and June. It comes from Philippines. The canes of this species hold its leaves for two or three seasons. The short inflorescence carries up to five 3.5 inch flowers which are pure white with a limegreen throat.. They require water all year round, although this should be reduced slightly during the colder months. This species is suited to pot culture.

Order: Asparagales Family: Orchidaceae Genus: Arundina Specific epithet: graminifolia Scientific name: Arundina graminifolia Common name: Bamboo Orchid Description: Arundina graminifolia is a terrestrial multiperennial orchid with reedy stems, forming large clumps growing to a height of 70 cm to 2 m. This orchid blooms in summer and autumn, showing rather open clusters of showy terminal flowers, ten at the most. They bloom in succession on the terminal racemes, which are 7 to 16 cm long. These flowers, 5 8 cm in diameter, are a rosy lilac and white disk with a purple lip. The bracts are wide triangular and surround the main stalk of the flower cluster. The occasional fertilized seed pods contain minute powdery seeds, and small plants often develop near the cane ends after flowering, and likely aid in propagation if allowed to reach the soil.

Order: Asparagales Family: Orchidaceae Genus: Laelia Specific epithet: harpophylla Scientific name: Laelia harpophylla Common name: Cattleya Description: A medium sized, Brazilian epiphyte at elevations of 500 to 900 meters in shady humid habitats and has a clustered, very thin terete pseudobulb carrying a solitary, sickle or sword shaped leaf and an erect, terminal, 6 inches long, several flowered, clustered at the top, racemose inflorescence subtended by a small sheath that is shorter than the leaves occurring in the fall in Brazil and late winter and spring in northern climes and growing cool but not cold, little to no dormancy and less light and more water than other rupicolous Laelia. This species is easily separated by its epiphytic habit. Its elongate, slender stems and its short inflorescence that hardly equals the leaf in length as well as blooming in the late winter and spring.

Order: Asparagales Family:Orchidaceae Subfamily: Epidendroideae Genus: Renanthera Specific epithet: storiei Scientific name: Renanthera storiei Common name: Fire orchid Description: The Renanthera, popularly known as the Fire Orchid, is a beautiful and highly collectable plant. It has intensely red flowers, hence its name. It is also used as a parent plant in breeding todays bright red conventional and inter-generic vandaceous orchid hybrids. It is used as an accent in garden shows and flower arrangements. Some of these plants can grow very tall so they require stakes to support their long stems

Order: Asparagales Family: Orchidaceae Subfamily: Epidendroideae Genus: Maxillaria Specific epithet: tenuifolia Common name: Coconut Orchid Descrption: Maxillaria tenuifolia is a long time favorite because of its strong coconut scent, it smells just like a Pina Coloda. The coconut orchid is an easy to grow orchid that smells like fresh coconuts. Care is simple - keep it moist & high light like Cattleya. It can take a wide range of light and will take bright light up to about 5000 foot candles. It likes to stay moist and will tolerate large amounts of water on its roots. Not much more except to enjoy the scent in March - April when they bloom. General good culture like any other orchid is desirable. Good air circulation - fertilize regularly

Order: Asparagales Family: Orchidaceae Subfamily: Epidendroideae Genus: Rossioglossum Specific epithet: grande Scientific name: Rossioglossum grande Common name: Tiger orchid Description: The Tiger Orchid, Rossioglossum grande (previously Odontoglossum grande), is an epiphytic species of orchid native to the area from Mexico to Honduras. "Tiger Orchid" is the common name however it may also share it with other species of orchids. The plant may grow four to eight flowers, each may reach up to 13 inches in diameter. The flowers are a glossy bright golden yellow with brown barring. Larger pedals are yellow with the lower half redbrown. The lip is white and sometimes flecked with red-brown. The pseudobulbs carry a gray-green color to them, and grow from 4 to 10 cm, each with two leaves. It prefers hot, wet summers and cool, dry winters. It mainly flowers in the winter.

Order: Asparagales Family: Orchidaceae Subfamily: Cypripedioideae Genus: Paphiopedilum Scientific name: Paphiopedilum sp. Common name: Slipper orchids Description: Paphiopedilum species naturally occur among humus layers as terrestrials on the forest floor, while a few are true epiphytes and some are lithophytes. These sympodial orchids lack pseudobulbs. Instead, they grow robust shoots, each with several leaves; some are hemicryptophytes. The leaves can be short and rounded or long and narrow, and typically have a mottled pattern. When older shoots die, newer ones take over. Each new shoot only blooms once when it is fully grown, producing a raceme between the fleshy, succulent leaves. The roots are thick and fleshy. Potted plants form a tight lump of roots that, when untangled, can be up to 1 m long.

Order: Asparagales Family: Orchidaceae Subfamily: Epidendroideae Genus: Vanda Specific epithet: hookerana Scientific name: Vanda hookerana Common Name: Miss joaquim Description: These mostly epiphytic, but sometimes lithophytic or terrestrial orchids are distributed inIndia, Himalaya, SE Asia, Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, southern China and northern Australia. The genus has a monopodial growth habit with leaves that are highly variable according tohabitat. Some have flat, typically broad, ovoid leaves (strap-leaves), while others have cylindrical (terete), fleshy leaves and are adapted to dry periods. The stems of these orchids vary considerably in size; there are miniature plants and plants with a length of several meters.

Order: Asparagales Family: Orchidaceae Genus: Oncidium Scientific name: Oncidium sp. Common name: Dancing ladies Description: Oncidium species are characterised by the following properties: presence of column wings, presence of a complicated callus on the lip (this can be used to separate the taxa), pseudobulbs with one to three leaves and several basal bracts at the base of the pseudobulbs. The flowers of the Oncidium genus come in shades of yellow, red, white and pink. The petals are often ruffled on the edges, as is the lip. The lip is enormous, partially blocking the small petals and sepals.

Order: Asparagales Family: Orchidaceae Genus: Cymbidium Specific epithet: coccinea Scientific name: Cymbidium coccinea Common name: Cymbidium Description: Cymbidium plants are sympodial and grow to a height of 60 cm and the racemes as high as 90 cm. The raceme grows from the base of the most recent pseudobulb. Each flower can have a diameter of 5 to 10 cm, according to the species. They bloom during the winter, and each plant can have up to fifteen or more flowers. The fantastic range of colors for this genus include white, green, yellowish-green, cream, yellow, brown, pink, and red [and orange] (and there may be markings of other color shades at the same time), but not blue and black. The flowers last about ten weeks. They have a waxy texture. The rounded sepals and petals have about the same dimensions. They show very diverse color patterns, different for every species.

Order: Asparagales Family: Orchidaceae Genus: Caladenia Scientific name: Caladenia sp. Common name: Spider orchid Description: The species are small to medium-sized terrestrial orchids. A single, hairy, lanceolate to oblong, basal leaf arises through sympodial growth from underground tubers. The inflorescence is a panicle or raceme with 1 to 8 flowers, showing a fringed or dentate margin. These species have a complex interaction with pollinators, resulting in pseudocopulation.