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Basic about Orchids

Orchidaceae - There are 30,000 species of orchids around the world, range from hot tropical to artic circle, they can be found in almost every continents except Antarctica, orchids comes in many form and sizes, range from epiphytes to terrestrials, some can do a bit of both. Since orchid are widely spread across the world, therefore different orchids have different growing requirement, when purchase an orchid, name tag is very important, from the name tag, it can trace the orchid's origin and to search for the growing condition. 

You can use this website to trace your orchid's root - https://www.orchidroots.com

After you found out your orchids original parents or native land, you can search this website for their growing tips - https://travaldo.blogspot.com/

If you cannot find the orchid species growing tips from Travaldo, you can search Orchid Species for the description of their nature habitat - http://orchidspecies.com/

Other useful orchid growing tips can also be found in America Orchid Society - https://www.aos.org/

When the orchid's growing requirement is known, we can evaluate if a suitable growing condition for the orchid such as Light, Temperature, Humidity, air float can be provided, if a good condition and environment is met, we can move to the choice of growing media.

Epiphytes type of orchid can be growing in both in pot or mounted on objects, terrestrials

	Bulbophyllum obyrnei mounted on a piece of wood
	Neofinetia falcata 'Nangokunomai' 南國之舞 growing in a clay pot
	Neofinetia falcata 'Hisui' 翡翠 wrap in a sphagnum moss ball