Many orchids like cool temperatures - the tropics are not always hot! For instance, here's a native of northern California that gets frosty every few years:

Calypso

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There are around 28,000 naturally occurring orchid species, all pollenated by insects, except some few populations that pollenate themselves (often without opening their flowers).

There are around 120,000 artificial orchid hybrids, all pollenated by humans. Being plants, orchids have no brains, but aren't they clever?

 

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Orchid Care and Growing Tips

 


MOTH ORCHID


 


PANSY ORCHID

 


CLOUD FOREST ORCHIDS

(ALSO CALLED ONCIDIINAE INTERGENERICS)

 


LADY SLIPPER ORCHIDS

Zygopetalum ( & other cool winter, e.g. Cymbidium, Australian Dendrobium) orchids

 

CATTLEYA ORCHIDS; ALSO DENDROBIUMS



 

 

 
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