Flower Today: Arachnis ‘Magiie Oie’

Look at this beautiful brown-striped yellow orchid. It’s also popular as scorpion orchid.

Another variant, its red color is so tempting

Magnificent

Flower Today: Paphiopedilum Glaucophyllum

This Lady Slipper or anggrek kantong/kasut is rare. 

The up-close look of Paphiopedilum. Very exotic!

This is another variant of Paphiopedilum Glaucophyllum. Look at the gradation of the color. And if you observe it carefully, it looks like a bat with different wings and beautiful color. Very unique!!! ... more, I think. It’s outstanding!!

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The Images were taken at the Orchid Asia Africa Expo, Bandung, West Java

Flower Today:Yellow Phragmipedium

This kind of orchid is unique. It has a kind of ‘pocket’ on its lip which looks like slipper. That’s why it is called Lady Slipper or in Indonesia it’s famous as anggrek kantong or kasut. 

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Images were taken at the Orchid Asia Africa Expo, Bandung, West Java

Flower Today: A Unique and Rare Orchid

We don’t know the name of this orchid, as it’s the first time we saw it. Unfortunately we couldn’t find the name tag on its vase, as well as the seller. So, who knows one of you can tell us what name is.

The flower has 5 petals. The petals are quite thick and has dark brown color with yellow line on the edge and in the middle. Very contrast and unique!!!

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Image taken at the Orchid Asia Africa Expo, Bandung, West Java

Flower Today: One Hawaian Sunset

As shown on the label below, its name is One Hawaian Sunset

The up-close look

Look at the lip! It's bigger than the three petals above. With red brownish round-shaped and white on the tip, they just look like babies tortoises to reach the sea, right? Fantastic!

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Images taken from The Orchid Asia Africa Expo, Bandung, West Java.

Flower Today: One Snowy Baby

Look, how beautiful this kind of orchid is! The color, the black stripe lines on its lip and the soft hairy stem ...

hm... marvelous.

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Image taken from The Orchid Asia Africa Expo, Bandung, West Java.

The Orchid Asia Africa Expo (part 3)

These are what we bought at The Orchid Asia Africa Expo few weeks ago. We bought 2 pots plant of dendrobium. We purposely chose the plants that haven't bloomed all, some flowers at the top are still buds so that they will last longer. What we thought is right because it has almost been a month since we bought and those orchids still look beautiful. They are even more beautiful since the flowers are all blooming now.

'green jade' dendrobium

an up close look

'red peking' dendrobium

an up close look

Kekar Plant Adoption

Does anyone know the name of this orchid? We don't know either since it includes rare species and seldom found at the market. It's also the first time we saw this orchid and it was at the booth of  Kekar Merah Putih.

There, we also saw giant orchid plant (named gigantea?) which almost extinct because of the illegal lodging. There were also other species of orchid which drastically decreasing in population hanging there. 

Besides the almost extinct orchids, Kekar Merah Putih also brought some natural traditional products from  tribes in the inland Borneo, Kalimantan. They were woven fabric, hats, purses and hand bags from woven bamboo.

These rows of young orchid plants were not for sale but for adoption. Kekar Merah Putih is apparently a NGO, too. So, for those who are interested to adopt the almost extinct orchids or if you need further information about this can contact at the address below:

Kekar Merah Putih, NGO

Dewan Pimpinan Pusat

Jl. Saturnus Ujung VI S/134 

Bandung, Jawa Barat, Indonesia

Phone: 022-70047680

kekar_merahputih@yahoo.co.id

The Orchid Asia Africa Expo (part 2)

Still from the Orchid Asia Africa Expo held in Bandung, we walked sightseeing from one booth to another looking for something interesting to decor our home living and then we saw a booth in which some women with lots of pots in plastic bags standing in front of it.  It was the booth of Eka Karya. Apparently there were many variants of orchids which commonly found in the market sold there but in reasonable price. No wonder they bought up a lot of orchid plants.

Clockwise is Tanida pink dendrobium, white spot phalaenopsis, Nexia purple anthurium and yellow phalaenopsis.

Besides selling various kinds of orchids, Eka Karya also sells dry moss and hydrogel, but I don't know whether they are really effective in growing the plant well. Anyway worth a try, right? 

By the way, we bought 2 pots of dendrobium at Eka Karya. Curious to know what they are? Visit our next posting, ok?

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Eka Karya

Jl. KH. Hasyim Ashari Blok D3/8

Jakarta

Phone: 021-63856231

The Orchid Asia Africa Expo (part 1)

A few weeks ago we visited the Orchid Asia Africa Expo which held on 9 - 13 May 20 2012. The location was at Bank Indonesia parking lot, Jl. Braga, Bandung - West Java.  Though we arrived quite early, there were already some visitors inside. The orchid expo was followed by dozens of participants with various types of booths just like the ones below.

Here you, the orchid lovers, will find various kinds of orchids in many colors and species.  From the very beginning seed (still tiny plants in the bottle)  up to the growing and blooming ones. From the ordinary one such as the  Phalaenopsis amabilis or in Indonesia called as 'Anggrek bulan', up to the rare species from Sumatra andKalimantan that are almost extinct. 

And these are some of the species that uncommonly seen. Beautiful, colorful, rare, and almost extinct. Very attractive aren't they?