VRO ORCHID CATALOGUE Picture Name Parentage Size Code Price Description Madagascar, Comores Flowering Aeranthes caudata S307 R 265,00 Grow in cool to warm conditions in shaded Size conditions Aerides Korat Koki x Aeridovanda Full Flowering Vanda VHT68 R 250,00 Free flowering orange flowers Moon Size Bangkhunthian Aliceara Winter Very appealing, fuller Brassia-like sparkling white Brat Cartagena x Flowering Wonderland 'White OSH04 R 175,00 flowers with small maroon markings. Onc Gledhow Size Fairy' Long lasting Angraecum Flowering AFRICAN Dwarf epiphyte; attractive leaf AS08 R 150,00 distichum Size structure; tiny, white flowers. Rare. Ascocenda Gold Ascocenda Gold Our best yellow - Charming very large yellow Flowering Lover x Ascocenda Lover x Ascocenda VHT52 R 350,00 flowers with some fine mahogany spotting, from Size Boris Boris two excellent yellow parents. Ascocenda V. Gordon Dillon x Kulwadee Flowering Bold dark maroon spotting with some pink Ascda. Guo Chia VHT64 R 285,00 Fragrance 'Klai Size flushing Long Song Jed' Ascocenda V. Gordon Dillon x Flowering Kulwadee Ascda. Guo Chia VHT63 R 285,00 Stunning maroon-spotted flowers Size Fragrance 'Sib Hok' Long Ascocenda V. Gordon Dillon x Kulwadee Flowering Ascda. Guo Chia VHT65 R 285,00 Bold dark maroon-red spotting Fragrance 'Song Size Long Ng' HYBRID Ascocenda Ascocenda Kulwadee Lavender flower crossed onto a purple-grey - an Kulwadee Flowering Fragrance x Vanda VHT75 R 285,00 array of colours emerged in the progeny all of Fragrance x Vanda Size Pitchaon them spotted - Maroon, pink, blue spots on Pitchaon lighter pale cream to yellow background. HYBRID Ascocenda Laksi x Ascocenda Laksi x Free flowering, smaller flowers Flowering Ascocenda Ascocenda VHT81 R 375,00 Bright red x blue - the first ones to open were Size Rakpaibulsombat Rakpaibulsombat beautiful purple-blue spotted flowers. The next one a lovely cerise pink. This came as quite a surprise - We expected Ascocenda Ascda. Rose Gem x Flowering bright red-pink flowers, but the only red we got VHT73 R 275,00 Parinlada Ascda. Korb Fah Size were fine spotting! It is still a very charming flower and free blooming. Ascocenda Ascda. Suksamran Prapathom Gold Gold x V. Charles FS VHT69 R 300,00 A beautiful clear yellow 'Nud' Goodfellow Mericlone Ascocenda Roslyn's Ascda. Fuchs Gold x Flowering Free flowering, a deeper orange-red than the VHT72 R 275,00 Best 'Somdang' Ascda. Meda Arnold Size Ascda Roslyn's Best 'Orange Belle' and also a very good shape A very unusual and attractive colouring - Cream Ascocenda Ascocenda Theresa Flowering to soft yellow flowers heavily overlaid with bold Suksamran Spots x VHT41 R 315,00 Marie 'K Browny' Size mahogany-maroon spotting and pink flushing on Vanda Doctor Anek the edges. Ascda. Kulwadee Stunning, well-shaped, dark maroon-spotted Ascocenda Uraiwan Flowering Fragrance x V. VHT61 R 285,00 flowers with a flushing of pink on a cream Belle 'Bur Yisib' Size Doctor Anek background. This colourful miniature grows at low to moderate altitudes from India and Nepal to Ascocentrum Flowering S215 R 235,00 Indochina. The erect inflorescences carry up to ampullaceum Size about 45 densely packed flowers varying in colour from bright cerise to orange. Bardendrum (Epi Epi obrienianum x Flowering Colours vary from bright purple to red. The obrienianum x MC1573 R 65,00 Barkeria cyclotella Size Epidendrum shape is very dominant. Barkeria cyclotella) Barkeria cyclotella x Flowering Unusual lavender flowers that last for months; Barkeria Cyclosky MH971 R 120,00 skinneri Size nick-named the Helicopter orchid. Found in southern Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador. It grows as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte in dry areas on oak trees Barkeria Flowering S388 R 185,00 and bushes at elevations of 1300-3500 meters spectabilis Size with fusiform-cylindrical, erect pseudobulbs carrying ovate to linear-lanceolate, sub- coriaceous, acute to acuminate leaves. It flowers in the summer on a few to many flowered, apical, 10" [25 cm] long, racemose or paniculate inflorescence arising on a newly arising pseudobulb with short-lived non-fragrant flowers that open in succession. It is a cool to cold growing orchid and likes to be mounted on wood branches with moderate shade and even watering while growing and a drier winter rest after leaf drop. www.orchidspecies.com Beallara Tahoma Very free flowering, Vigorous grower. Produces Beallara Peggy Flowering Glacier x Mitonia OMIA26 R 150,00 beautiful starry flowers in soft pastel-purple, Ruth Carpenter Size Purple Queen maroon and white colours Brazil Bifrenaria Flowering S390 R 195,00 Long lasting, waxy cream flowers with an harrisoniae Size attractive dark purple-pink lip Free flowering, very attractive pale creamy-green Flowering flowers with soft maroon-cerise spotting and Brassanthe Maikai MCH16 R 270,00 Size flushing on the petals and sepals and bold spotting and markings on the lip Another 'Spider Orchid' hybrid. These fascinating Brassia arcuigera x Flowering Brassia Chieftain OOB05 R 125,00 plants are very popular as pot plants because of verrucosa Size their vigour and ease of culture and flowering. A newer 'Spider Orchid' hybrid. These fascinating Brassia verrucosa x Flowering Brassia Datacosa OOBT04 R 165,00 plants are very popular as pot plants because of caudata Size their vigour and ease of culture and flowering. Brassia Eternal Brassia Bracdiana x Flowering Wind 'Summer OOBT01 R 165,00 Very attractive and free flowering spider orchid Brassia Rex Size Dream' Brassia Rex ' Brassia verrucosa x Flowering Witrivier' OOB01 R 85,00 A superb clone of the large spider orchid. Brassia gireoudiana Size AM/SAOC Also known as the 'Spider Orchid'. This is a very Brassia verrucosa x Flowering Brassia Rex 'Otto' OOB03 R 185,00 attractive clone and has proven to be not too Brassia gireoudiana Size difficult to flower. The long, narrow, sharply pointed sepals and petals are widely spread. The sepals and petals are green toward the apex but become yellow Brassia signata Flowering S296 R 165,00 with brown-purple markings toward the base. (syn. mexicana) Size The lip is white marked with purplish spots. Flowers are about 10 cm tall from the tip of the dorsal sepal to the tips of the lateral sepals. Picture Name Parentage Size Code Price Description A very showy pot-plant with long-lasting Brassidium Gilded Brassidium Fly Flowering flowers. Produces tall inflorescences of bright Urchin x Onc OMIA20 R 200,00 Away 'Miami' Size lemon-yellow flowers, with mahogany spotting, maculatum good substance. Large plants. Intermediate to warm growing Brassidium Brassia Santa Ynez x Flowering This cross introduces some exciting new [Brsdm.] Black Star OR351 R 175,00 Oncidium Fireflower Size colouring to this group of orchids that are easy 'Pacific Red Star' to grow and flower Brassolaeliocattleya Best Cattleya on World Orchid Show, Singapore Brassolaeliocattleya Bryce Canyon x Flowering 2011. Large, fragrant, dark purple-red flowers CSH03 R 350,00 King of Taiwan Brassolaeliocattleya Size with darker red lip and two large yellow 'eyes' Purple Ruby on the lip. Laeliocattleya Glad Brassolaeliocattleya Tidings x Flowering Grown from seed - the grex produced light to CAL922 R 250,00 Plinlimmon Brassocattleya Mount Size darker large pink flowers with a striking lip. Anderson Intermediate to warm growing Bratonia [Brat.] Brassia maculata x Flowering This clone is one with almost no spotting or Estrelita 'Sweet OW525 R 165,00 Miltonia regnellii Size markings and shows the striking contrast of the Senorita' white flower and pink lip Divisions of the Species of the Year 2004, Cirrhopetalum eberhardtii 'Tzarina', an Bulbophyllum exceptional clone. Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, (Cirrhopetalum) Flowering Zimbabwe, Zaire, Seychelles, Madagascar, S245 R 275,00 eberhardtii Size Mascerene Islands, Australia, New Guinea, Fiji, 'Tzarina' Tahiti, Molucca islands. A small to moderately size sympodial plant that grows epiphytically usually in fairly deep shade. Bulbophyllum (Cirrhopetalum) Cirrhopetalum Stunning; does well in a basket or mounted. Flowering Elizabeth Ann longissimum x Cirr MH10 R 175,00 This makes one of the most beautiful specimen Size 'Buckleberry' rothscildianum plants you can ever have. AM/AOS AM/SAOC AFRICAN: Southern and Central Africa Pseudobulbs set 1-6 cm apart on a creeping rhizome, ellipsoid, usually somewhat 4-angled. Leaves 2, linear-lanceolate to elliptic, sub erect, pale green. Inflorescence erect or Bulbophyllum Flowering arching, 10-many-flowered; rachis slightly fuscum var. AS195 R 130,00 Size swollen and flattened. Flowers borne in melinostachyum channels on either side of the rachis, partly enclosed in bracts, yellow-green to orange; lip orange to vermilion. Found in woodland and riverine forest up to 1 350m. Bulbophyllum lobbii x A very striking offspring from Bulb lobbii - Bulbophyllum Flowering Bulbophyllum MH23 R 175,00 same large flowers and shape but adding much Jersey Size echinolabium more colour. Bulbophyllum - syn. Cirrhopetalum breviscapum . Burma, Thailand, Malaysia. Bulbophyllum Hairy, dark maroon flowers. Lip cream, spotted lasiochilum Flowering S17 R 85,00 maroon, with long hairs on the lip margin (Cirrhopetalum Size We love this Bulbo - the close up of the face breviscapum) looks like an ancient Indian chief's face - all nose, teeth, hairy upper-lip and head feathers Distributed from the Andaman Islands through Burma (now Myanmar), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Mentawai, Bangka, Java, Maluku, and Borneo. This orchid has been collected in most regions of Thailand from the northwest mountains to peninsular Thailand, but specific habitat details were not given. Plants have been found at several locations in Laos and Cambodia and at numerous locations in Vietnam, but habitat elevations for these locations were not given. In Malaya, plants are Bulbophyllum Flowering S309 R 175,00 reported to be common in the lowlands in the lepidum Size southern part of the country. In Sumatra, plants are not very common but have been collected from Muara Tebu in Jambi and from the Mentawai Islands (just off the west coast) as well as from Bangka Island (just off the east coast), with plants almost always found in the low foothills.