Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Garden # 84, 0 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Debra, the dark leaf in Rachel's photo looks like a Philodendron sp., the leaves on the left look like a Urospatha sp.

Rachel, aren't some of the Goodyera sps orchids called 'Jewel Orchids'?

For another project I was checking the number of local native orchids we have in our area. The current number is 40 species in 21 genera. Of course that's miniscule compared to the total number for the whole of the country, about 1400 species in 192 genera. But of our 40 I've only found 5 species growing naturally on my place. I have brought in some other natives. Photo is of Dockrillia bowmannii. The list below is of the 40 local natives.

Arthrochilus latipes
Calochilus caeruleus
Calochilus holtzei
Chiloschista phyllorhiza
Cymbidium canaliculatum
Dendrobium affine
Dendrobium canaliculatum
Dendrobium lobbii
Dendrobium trilamellatum
Dipodium stenocheilum
Didymoplexis pallens
Eulophia bicallosa
Eulophia graminea
Geodorum neocaledonicum
Habenaria elongata
Habenaria ferdinandi
Habenaria halata
Habenaria hymenophylla
Habenaria mesophylla
Habenaria ochroleuca
Habenaria rumphii
Habenaria sp. Sand flats (undescribed)
Habenaria triplonema
Malaxis acuminata
Malaxis latifolia
Malaxis marsupichila
Nervilia aragoana
Nervilia holochila
Nervilia peltata
Nervilia plicata
Nervilia sp. Cordata (undescribed)
Nervilia uniflora
Pachystoma pubescens
Phaius terrestre
Phoringopsis byrnesii
Phoringopsis sp. Bradshaw Station (undescribed)
Spathoglottis paulinae
Thrixspermum congestum
Tropidia curculigoides
Zeuxine oblonga