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Santa Cruz Orchid Society
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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 · 26d
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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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
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Mara Strom brings in this tiny Barbosella dusenii. It received our Lancer Smith award. It’s for tiny orchids. A recent Barbosella dusenii was presented at the CSNJC which had over 400 flowers.

#orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #bluesky #houseplants #gardening
November 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Oncidium fuscatum alba is rare - usually the colours are burgundy and white. It’s native range is from Panama to Peru and North Brazil. This was also found near El Pangui. 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation
November 26, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge #Flowers
#WeekVforVowels #Orchids
Orchids
Yellow orchid flowers with black spots and five slender green leaves.
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Paphiopedilum Temptation
(P. kolopakingii x philippinense).

This is a BIG plant. Size and flower count comes from P. kolopakingii, color and twisted petals from P. philippinense. #orchids 🌴 🌱
A tropical lady’s slipper orchid with multiple flowers. Flowers have striped sepals, yellow pouch, and long twisted petals.
November 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Laeliocattleya Frank Shadle
(Laelia x gouldiana x Cattleya loddigesii)

#orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #bluesky #houseplants #gardening
November 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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#orchids #orchidsky #bloomscrolling
Please enjoy my friend's 'wild' orchids.
Just out there doing their thing, living their best lives
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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What’s blooming today. #Orchids #canihaveaomemoreplease
November 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Cattlianthe Final Blue ‘Royal Purple’
(Cattlianthe Blue Dynasty x Cattleya walkeriana)

#orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #bluesky #houseplants #gardening
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Paphiopedilum Faire Maud. And there's a second bud behind it!

#orchids #orquideas #santacruz
A slipper orchid with a white dorsal sepal with maroon venation, green hairy petals with red margins, maroon stripes, and a reddish purple lip.
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Stelis sclerophylla with a mass of flowers just spotted beside the road on a fence with farmland near Mindo 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation
November 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Transformation of a splash cattleya #orchids
November 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Oncidium tigrinum first bloomer for me, I have had this plant on my wish list for years. I'm thrilled to have it in my collection last summer. Can't wait to see the plant get more mature and bloom even better. #orchids #orchidaceae #flowers #greenhouse #nature #species #garden #gardening #plants
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Brassocatanthe Memoria Nyla Jo Whiting
(Brassocattleya Rustic Spots x Guarianthe Guatemalensis)

It’s a hybrid I made a while back. Named after a friend’s mother-in-law who died of cancer.

#orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #bluesky #houseplants #gardening
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Coelogyne Jannine Banks
(Coelogyne mooreana x Coelogyne flaccida)

#orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #bluesky #houseplants #gardening
November 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Epidendrum spathatum (aka embreei) was seen in a cloud forest reserve near Mindo. This beautiful orange flower - often these bright coloured orchids are pollinated by hummingbirds 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation
November 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Thelymitra crinita - Blue Lady orchid

I’ve posted this picture before, but I’m posting it again because I love the contrast between the orchid’s blue flowers and reddish orange of the Aussie bush it’s growing in 💙🧡

#orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #nature #photography
Two orchid stand with a number of blue flowers growing against a reddish orange backdrop of the Australian bush
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM