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Increasing the awareness, appreciation, enjoyment, conservation, and cultivation of orchids

Meetings are held at 7pm on the second Friday of every month at the Live Oak Grange Hall, 1900 17th Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95062. Come Join us!
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Santa Cruz Orchid Society @scorchidsociety.bsky.social · Nov 13
Meeting this Friday! We're talking Lycastes.

Tim Culbertson will speak on the genus Lycaste, most especially, the smaller cooler growing varieties. These are wonderful plants to grow here in Santa Cruz.

Photo: Lycaste aromatica, grown by our Acting Pres. Vicky Smith

#santacruz #orchids #lycaste
A Lycaste orchid growing in bark in a clay pot with leafless flattened pear-shaped pseudobulbs. Over a dozen lemon-yellow flowers emerging from the base of the pseudobulbs. The sepals are greenish yellow with green tips. The petals and sepals are a golden yellow. Nascent new growths are also starting to grow beneath the flowers.
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Calypso bulbosa, our Fairy Slipper orchid, blooming near Sawmill Reservoir Pond #nativeplants #orchids

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 24 🌿
Pink orchid with yellow bearded lower white lip
December 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Christmas orchid!

Stenorrhynchos speciosum was well worth the wait. 🌴 🌱 #orchids
An orchid bright red-and-white flowers. The foliage is a rosette of soft white-spotted leaves that look a bit like a Hosta.
December 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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U is for Masdevallia uniflora a beautiful species that is part of the National Collection. Do you have an unusual orchid or URG (unregistered grex) to share today? 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation #orchidalphabet🌱
December 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Epipactis gigantea, our Stream Orchid, blooming in Poncha Springs #orchids #nativeplants

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 21 🌿
Green and red orchid
December 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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V is for vibrant Vandas
#AtoZ #Orchids
Collage with various brightly coloured Vanda orchids
December 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Chasing #birds all over Tasmania, we still had time to check out some #wildflowers Here is a Duck Orchid (Caleana major) #WildTasmnia #WildAustralia #wildflowerpower #orchids
December 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Corallorhiza maculata, our Spotted Coralroot, blooming in RMNP. It lacks chlorophyll and has scales in place of leaves so it's saprophytic #nativeplants #orchids

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 16 🌿
Brownish orchids with purple spotted white lips
December 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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R is for Rossioglossum grande - sometimes known as the clown orchid that forms part of the Oncidium alliance. Thanks everyone for sharing all your alphabet photos - do share any R orchids today! 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation #orchidalphabet🌱
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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To beat the dark, short days. Here is my Rhyncattleanthe 'Volcano Prince' in bloom for the 2nd time. A lovely golden yellow on a sturdy stalk.
#orchids
3 Golden yellow flowers with 5 unopened buds on a green stalk A young org busy with green strap leaves and a long stalk with golden flowers
December 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Paphiopedilum Hsinying Alien,
on this continuing cloudy day...
#orchids #bloomscrolling #flowers #slipperorchids #paph
Side view of a slipper orchid with a dark reddish brown slipper and a white with red and green stripped dorsal sail A dark colored slipper orchid hanging in front of a window and labeled 'Paphiopedilum Hsinying Alien'
December 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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M is for Masdevallia - Tourmaline (R) and Bay Breeze (L) - a splash of colour from our National Plant Collection. These Andean orchids seem to flower year round in the nursery. Do you have any M orchids you admire? 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation #orchidalphabet🌱
December 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Flowers starting to open. Compared to some other clones of the species that I have grown or seen, this plant has larger bracts which partially hide the flowers.

Color and morphology clearly indicates pollination by hummingbirds. 🌴 🌱 #orchids
An orchid with soft, white spotted leaves and tubular flowers that are red with a white lip.
December 13, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Henry Shaw shares his Dendrobium aratriferum. He says it smells like cucumber!

#orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #bluesky #houseplants #gardening
December 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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New orchid just dropped
December 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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L is for Lycaste AB Little Scatterbrain - one of the orchids from the Hartley’s. So grateful for everyone who continues to support us as we conserve these fantastic collections 🌿 Any L orchids to share today?

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation #orchidalphabet🌱
December 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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K is for Masdevallia Kimballiana another historic hybrid registered in 1893 a primary of caudata and veitchiana. Which K orchids do you have? 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation #orchidalphabet🌱
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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I continues to challenge so here is Comparettia ignea. Originally from Colombia this delights visitors each year with its orange blooms. What orchids do you have with I in the name? 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation #orchidalphabet🌱
December 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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My orchids are coming so well this winter… and it’s only the beginning ! #orchids #cymbidium #phalaenopsis
December 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Might be my best pic yet of a bloom from my Trisetella strumosa mini orchid. You can see the tongue in this one if you look close.

#orchids
#orchid
And yellow and red/pink bloom from a Trisetella strumosa mini orchid, against a mossy backdrop.
December 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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F has been tricky with very unusual species! To keep the alphabet and joy here is Cymbidium Fliquet from our new National Collection of Cymbidiums. Registered in 1990 you can see the strong influence of sanderae. 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation #orchidalphabet🌱
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Our December newsletter is live!

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December 6, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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D is for Disa uniflora. These South African terrestrials enjoy life on our flood bench in Sussex with running water to replicate the conditions in nature. Do share any orchids with a D in their name! 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation #orchidalphabet🌱
December 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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#NewSpecies!
Lepanthes nasariana
A newly discovered orchid from #colombia!

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/D3F1E630-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
#phytoKeys #LepanthesNasariana

#FAIRdata
#OA #biology #taxonomy #nature #biodiversity #conservation #botany #plants #orchidaceae #orchids
Lepanthes nasariana in vivo. Flower, frontal view.
December 5, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Calypso bulbosa, our Fairy Slipper orchid, blooming on the Ceran St. Vrain trail #orchids #nativeplants

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 4 🌿
Pink and purple orchid with large white lip and yellow beard
December 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Today’s #orchid:
Dendrobium speciosum, grown by one of our HOS members.
December 2, 2025 at 12:49 AM