You may parlez French or habla Spanish, but if you don’t yet speak “orchid,” your language skills may need some refreshing! Growers, florists and fans of orchids have their own lingo, and you may come across many pages...
"What kind of orchid do I have?” is one of the most frequent questions we receive on our Just Add Ice Orchids forums. All Just Add Ice Orchids are members of the Orchidaceae family and are different varieties of...
It seems we’ve finally reached the end of our journey through orchid terminology from the American Orchid Society’s glossary. They’ve supplied us with orchid terms for the letters “T” through “V”, which we’ve augmented...
In case you’re wondering where Q went, there were no entries for it in the American Orchid Society’s glossary, so we skipped it! Though we did find this very extensive orchid glossary with a few Q’s – quadrangular,...
Learning orchid terminology involves a refresher on basic biology, so we’ve included links to help you out. Here are letters “M” through “P” from the American Orchid Society’s glossary.
In comparison to our earlier forays into the world of phalaenopsis orchid terminology, this group seems fairly straightforward. Either that, or we’ve already learned so much, it’s coming naturally to us now. Still, we...
Until you get a hang of orchid lingo, glossaries of orchid terminology can be more confusing than helpful. So we thought we’d do our part to connect the dots and fill in the blanks! Here’s our little additions to the...