Jude's Orchids

A vinicolor paph with a white-burgundy-striped dorsal sepal with a blush of green; a white-and-green-striped lateral sepal; mostly burgundy petals and a light-green column and staminode. Its leaves are variegated with a dark-green and light-green mottled pattern.

A boldly vinicolor paph with a white-burgundy-striped dorsal and lateral sepals, burgundy petals and a green column. Its leaves are variegated with a dark-green and light-green mottled pattern and a blush of burgundy. The undersides of the leaves are a dark burgundy as well.

A paph with variegated green leaves and a white-green striped flower.

This is a species phalaenopsis with variegated leaves that are silvery light grey-green with darker green clusters of dots arranged in a striping pattern. The flower spike is a burgundy in color and forms branching sprays.

Shannon's fourth phalaenopsis.

Shannon's  first and oldest phal with creamy light-yellow petals and sepals, with light a pink-blushing center.  The labellum has a blush of salmon and some striped markings of red and orange.

Shannon's third phalaenopsis with solid magenta flowers.

Shannon's second phalaenopsis with white petals and sepals marked by dark purple polka-dots that radiate from the center - with a white column/staminode and a light yellow labellum.

A mini phalaenopsis with creamy peach petals with a bold pink blush on its petals and sepals.

Flower spikes with multiple branches of flowers with pink petals and sepals with burgundy spots on its sepals.

Flower spikes with multiple branches of flowers with burgundy petals and sepals with rough white/light-pink edges. The labellum is a hot-ink magenta with a yellow column.

Long upgright canes with one flower spike per cane bearing white phalaenopsis-type flowers

Squat bifoliate pseudobulbs that crawl and have sprays of bright yellow-orange sprays of flowers.

Long upgright canes with one flower spike per cane bearing magenta phalaenopsis-type flowers.

Long upgright canes with one flower spike per cane bearing magenta phalaenopsis-type flowers. Mounted on driftwood, with roots wrapped in sheet sphagnum moss.

A hybrid of Brassavola, Laelia and Cattleya with long, thing bifoliate, pseudobulbs and flowers with yellow petals and sepals marked with a spray of small magenta/purple dots - with a labellum that are more intense magenta in color.

A hybrid of Brassavola, Cattleya, Laelia and Sophronitis with long monofoliate pseudobulbs and flowers with bright pink sepals and petals, and a darker pink labellum.

A hybrid of Cattleya and Guarianthe with short, compact pseudobulbs with ovate, bifoliate leaves and bright pink flowers. with somewhate lighter pink radiating from the column.

A hybrid of Cattleya and Broughtonia with bifoliate, thick finger-sized pseudobulbs that taper towards the base. The flowers are red with yellow centers including the center of the labellum and the column. A long stem ends with a spray of 5-7 of these flowers.

A hybrid of Brassavola, Cattleya and Prosthechea - including Brassavola nodosa. The orcid has medium-length, thin monofoliate pseudobulbs with long leaves - slightly wider than Brassavola nodosa. The flowers have light greenish-white petals/sepals with a labellum that is more white in color. Sweetly fragrant at night.

A hybrid of Brassavola, and Cattleya - with 25% of its lineage from Brassavola nodosa. The orchid has short-length, thin monofoliate pseudobulbs with long flattish leaves. The flowers have light greenish-white petals/sepals with a labellum that is more white in color. Sweetly fragrant at night.

A hybrid of Brassavola and Laelia with monofoliate and almost indiscernable pseudobulbs - with long, thing pencil-like leaves that curve length-wise. It has fragrant flowers that are light yellow petals, sepals and labellum - with a light peppering of dark red spots.

An oncidium with thick, egg-shaped oblong pseudobulbs - from which tall flowers spikes branch out in several branches and sprays of bright yellow flowers with small brown-striped sepals and petals and a much larger labellum - forming the shape of a dancer - thus its common name "dancing ladies orchid".

A very different oncidium with dark purple/brown monofoliate pseudobulbs that are dark brown-purple in color. Each leaf is thick and leathery, with variegated dark green coloration with dark purple/brown mottling.

A hybrid of Oncidium and Rhynchostele with very large, round pseudobulbs. One pair of leaves grow from the top of the pseudobulb, and another pair of leaves on either side of the pseudobulb. The waxy flowers grow from very tall spikes - with dark red flowers  with yellow tips on the petals, sepals and labellum.

An orchid with flat but ovate pseudobulbs at the center with a fan of leaves.  Flower spikes emerge from either edge of the pseudobulb and end in a spray of relatively large flowers relative to the pseudobulb. The flower has creamy white-yellow-peach sepals and petals. The petals each have a spot of magenta and the center of the labellum/staminode is orange with red lines radiating from the center. 

A species orchid with alateral growth pattern. This sympodial orchid has short, round, monofoliate pseudobulbs that grow in a daisy-chain pattern.  The leaves are long, thing, flat and bilateral.