If a seed lands where the food supply is suitable it will sprout. Some prefer hot conditions over damp, dark shady conditions and vice versa. Others bloom once a year, twice or throughout. There are over 250,000 known species and hybrids of orchids in the world. People keep crossing the different types so it s possible there are over half a million varieties out there.
Orchids fall into two categories, species and hybrids.
A hybrid is what you get when you cross two different species together. Species are what he calls found plants . Come let me show you my garden, he says finishing his cigarette. We were led to what he calls stage one , where the orchid seeds were kept in a temperature-controlled mini lab. Two hepafilters stood in one corner.