In Monteverde, you're walking on them in the ditches. There are hummingbirds galore. It's just beautiful and the fragrance is lovely. The vertical or monopodial orchid has a single upright stem and grows continually taller. Some Vanda orchids can reach a height of up to two metres.
Flowers grow from the stems, between the lead nodes.
Roots are aerial and sprout along the lower part of the stem. Voodoo Magic 'Vini' The sympodial, or horizontal orchid is more common. It produces new growth from its rhizome, which gets longer each year to form a series of thickened upright stems called pseudobulbs, from which emerge the leaves and the sheath of new flower beds. An epiphyte is a plant that grows upon another plant, yet is not a parasite and does not harm the host plant. In Latin 'epe' means above or on, and 'phyt' refers to plant.