Types of Orchids – Dendrobium, Laelia, Phalaenopsis

Dendrobium

Dendrobiums are epiphytes, producing their 3-inch flowers in pairs or triplets. The flowers have firm substance, are easy to ship, and will keep a long time in storage. The plants grow rather tall and must be staked. Give them full light, keep them warm and humid during the summer, cooler and drier in the winter. Dendrobiums come in white, orchid, purple, red, and orange.

Species Dendrobium nobile produces white-petaled, amethyst-tipped flowers; D. album, white; D. Colmanianum, large white with a yellow marking (disk) on the lip; D. aureum has yellow sepals and petals, and Arundel is yellow.

Laelia

Laelias, originating in Mexico, are a delightful group of fall-and winter-flowering orchids, closely related to cattleyas. Give them strong light and a 60- to 65-degree temperature. This plant is often used to cross-pollinate cattleyas.

Laelia anceps, with yellow-marked, red flowers, is a favorite; L. alba is white with a yellow marking on the lip; L. purpurata has large flowers with sepals and white petals flushed with rose and a purple lip.

87. Herbs offer another out-of-the-ordinary income source. You can sell them as novel house plants or for spring garden planting. Incidentally, and this holds true for herbs, begonias, gesneriads, and all the rest, you would be wise to have printed some cards of cultural recommendations to give away with each plant purchase. This will save you much time and trouble, and will also effectively publicize your name. (Courtesy, George J. Ball, Inc.)

Phalaenopsis

These produce sprays of 2- to 5-inch flowers, up to one hundred per branch, usually in late winter to early summer. They make fine hanging-basket plants and will grow in shadier locations than most other orchids in daytime temperatures of 70 to 75 degrees. Phalaenopsis gloriosa is white and pink; P. ama-bilis, white with purple dots and yellow stains.

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