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A good starter orchid is called Phalaenopsis, or the “moth orchid.”
Growing Orchids isn't as hard as You Think - a Primer for Beginners 2007
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I found your story "Phalaenopsis" moving in a completely unsentimental way--an effect achieved for me anyway by the profundity of its ambiguities.
Imaginary Foreign Policy Theodora Goss 2008
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Make an instant impact by creating an arrangement featuring a classic white orchid such as Phalaenopsis Orchid 'Alabaster' and a bold red bromeliad like Guzmania Bromeliad 'Luna'.
Queens Gazette 2009
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Make an instant impact by creating an arrangement featuring a classic white orchid such as Phalaenopsis Orchid 'Alabaster' and a bold red bromeliad like Guzmania Bromeliad 'Luna'.
Queens Gazette 2009
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Peter J. Smith for The Wall Street Journal The author's pink Phalaenopsis I probably have a dozen orchids growing at the moment, all of them over at my mom's house, which through some serendipitous combination of temperature and eastern morning light seems as hospitable to orchid propagation, or rather perpetuation, as the Amazon rain forest, or the Andes, or wherever it is that orchids come from.
Where Expertise Blooms Ralph Gardner Jr. 2012
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"Phalaenopsis orchids, white hydrangeas and European plant baskets are definitely attracting more interest," she says.
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Tried it on my last Phalaenopsis but, alas, it now is no longer with me either.
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Ornamental plant collecting, especially for the orchids (Phalaenopsis amabilis and Paphiopedilum argus), pitcher plants (Nepenthes spp.), palms (Veitchia merrillii), and aroids (Amorphophallus spp. and Alocasia spp.) threatens some plant populations.
Palawan rain forests 2008
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Yet, some do not need much water or care, such as the Vanda, Ascocenda and the Phalaenopsis Orchids.
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There are a few common, popular and preferred home planting varieties of orchid such as Ascocenda, Cattleya, Cymbidium, Dendrobium, Miltonia, Odontoglossums, Paphiopedilum, Phalaenopsis and Vanda.
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