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Due to their compact size and cultural needs, the plants listed here are well suited for the high humidity and lower light levels of terrariums and frog vivariums.

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Subfamily: EPIDENDROIDEAE
Tribe: EPIDENDREAE I (New World)
Subtribe: PLEUROTHALLIDINAE

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 Masdevallia Angel Fling - Intermediate - Potted - $ 18
(Angel Frost X Highland Fling) lush tangarine orange flowers with fine white iridescence - large full flowers - vigorous plants will bear multiple blooms at maturity. Blooming Size.


 
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 Masdevallia Angel Frost - Intermediate - Potted - $ 20
(veitchiana X strobelii) divisions of select clones - large flowers are tangerine-orange frosted with either fine white or purple hairs - original cross received many AOS awards including Award of Distinction. Mature.


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 Masdevallia Cameo - Intermediate - Potted - $ 20
(exquisita X confetti) soft pink flowers are slightly cupped and are coated with fine hairs - 3 ½ inch plant blooms freely. Mature.


 
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Subfamily: SPIRANTHOIDEAE
Tribe: CRANICHIDEAE
Subtribe: SPIRANTHINAE

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 Stenosarcos Vanguard 'Red Stripe' - Intermediate - Potted - $ 20
This hybrid has the winning combination of beautiful foliage and colorful flowers - light green leaves are striped with silver and form an attractive rosette - tall spires of red tubular flowers flare open at the tips - vigorous grower. Blooming Size.


 
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Subfamily: EPIDENDROIDEAE
Tribe: DENDROBIEAE
Subtribe: BULBOPHYLLINAE

 

 Bulbophyllum acutum - Intermediate - Mounted - Java - $ 20
¾ inch light green rambling plant with small red and white flowers that bloom in profusion along the rhizome - blooms several time a year. Mature.


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Tribe: EPIDENDREAE I (New World)
Subtribe: PLEUROTHALLIDINAE

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This item is a recent addition Barbosella cogniauxiana yellow - Intermediate - Mounted - Brazil - $ 18
(formerly B. handroi) ¾ inch oval leaves - vining habit - many 1 inch light yellow flowers on individual stems - easy to grow into specimen plant - extremely floriferous. Mature.


 
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 Barbosella cucullata - Intermediate - Mounted - Ecuador - $ 18
Scores of individual 1 ½ inch yellow flowers bloom simultaneously on 1 ½ inch stems - rambling plant habit is attractive. Mature.


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 Barbosella dussenii - Intermediate - Mounted - Brazil - $ 18
Copious light peach flowers are set off by attractive moss-like foliage - easy to bloom. Mature.


 
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 Dracula benedictii var. huebenii - Intermediate to Cool - in Net Pots - Colombia - $ 25
Small deeply cupped flowers have little gremlin face - exterior of flower is chalky white and inside of this variety is pink - many flowers produced at one time on short stems. Mature.


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 Dracula berthae - Cool - Potted - Colombia - $ 30
5 inch narrow leaves - white wide open flat flowers are heavily speckled with dark pink - sassy pink tongue and google eyes make an impish face in center of flower. Mature.


 
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 Dracula carlueri - Intermediate - in Net Pots - Costa Rica - $ 30
White flower is suffused with pink near the center - sepals are coated with soft white hairs on the inside and curl inward along the margins - vigorous grower that blooms profusely. Mature.


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 Dracula gorgonella - Intermediate - in Net Pots - Colombia - $ 30
Colorful flat flowers are white speckled with orange and red and surround the net pot on short stems - very showy. Mature.


 
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This item is a recent addition Dracula ophioceps - Intermediate - Mounted - Colombia - $ 30
IN SPIKE! compact 5 inch plant bears many flower spikes that descend sharply - bell-like honey-color flowers are coated with a sparkling white pubescence - the dorsal sepal tail points upward opening the flower nicely. Mature.


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 Dracula polyphemus - Intermediate - in Net Pots - Ecuador - $ 35
Large showy red flowers have velvety surface and large shovel-shaped white lip. Mature.


 
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 Dracula psyche - Intermediate to Cool - in Net Pots - Ecuador - $ 30
This distinctive species has narrow 7 inch leaves and an upright spike habit - each lovely flower is white with dark pink stripes and a light purple margin and tails. Mature.


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 Dracula ripleyana - Intermediate - in Net Pots - Costa Rica - $ 30
Petite flower has ivory base color with purple suffusion in center - flat flower has long dark red tails - robust grower. Mature.


 
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 Dracula velutina - Intermediate to Cool - in Net Pots - Colombia - $ 20
Small white blossoms have delicate pink tails - the inside surface of the flower is coated with tiny hairs - a tiny face peers from the center. Mature.


 
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 Dracula venosa - Intermediate - in Net Pots - Ecuador - $ 20
Cupped flower is flecked with orange-red - out-turned yellow tails - very floriferous - vigorous clumpy plants. Mature.


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 Lepanthes dictyota - Intermediate - Mounted - Colombia - $ 18
4 to 5 inch stem heavily covered with lepanthiform sheaths produces a single 2 inch leaf - purple tesselated leaf shows off fish bone patterned flower stem - almost always in bloom with yellow flowers centrally flushed with red. Mature.


 
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 Lepanthes eciliata - Intermediate - Mounted - Costa Rica - $ 20
Tiny but brilliant orange and red flowers are produced in succession for months - 3 inch plant. Mature.


 
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 Lepanthes gargoyla - Intermediate - Mounted - Ecuador - $ 18
½ inch copper and bronze monster-like flowers sit in middle of fuzzy purple oblong leaves that dangle from base of 3 inch plant. Mature.


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 Lepanthes scalaris - Intermediate - Potted - Ecuador - $ 18
Bracted 3 inch stems end in oval 1 inch leaves - flower spike emerges from leave axil and sports successive peach colored flowers with a garnet center. Mature.


 
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 Masdevallia abbreviata - Intermediate to Cool - Potted - Ecuador - $ 20
3 to 4 inch plant - multifloral type - many spikes of greenish white flowers with short tails. Mature.


 
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 Masdevallia chaetostoma - Intermediate to Cool - Potted - Ecuador - $ 20
This 2 inch plant gets covered with sprays of white flowers with contrasting yellow green tails - extremely floriferous. Mature.


 
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 Masdevallia discoidea - Warm to Intermediate - Potted - Brazil - $ 18
Glossy grape jelly flowers have white stripe top and bottom - the blossoms are carried on short stems and have unusual flattened shape - viewed from the side they are round like a discus but appear compressed from above. Blooming Size.


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 Masdevallia erinacea - Intermediate to Warm - Potted - Panama - $ 25
A miniature delight - prickly yellow and chestnut globular blossoms sit above 1 inch grassy leaves - named for its resemblance to a tiny hedgehog - unusual and showy. Mature.


 
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This item is a recent addition Masdevallia lucernula - Cool - Potted - Peru - $ 30
Dark green 3 inch leaves have black stems - balloon-like red-orange flowers resemble a glowing chinese lantern - exotic and unusual. Mature.


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 Masdevallia minuta - Intermediate - Mounted - South America - $ 20
Bountiful white tubular flowers hover above 1 inch leaves - each bloom has short thick yellowish green tails - adorable miniature. Mature.


 
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This item is a recent addition Masdevallia prodigiosa - Intermediate to Cool - Potted - Peru - $ 25
3 inch blue green oval leaves make the plant recognizable even when not in flower - semi-horizontal spikes bear large peachy orange flowers - each attractive blossom opens well and has a hood-like dorsal sepal - long tails. Mature.


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This item is a recent addition Masdevallia tridens - Intermediate to Cool - Potted - Ecuador - $ 25
Glossy green 8 inch spatulate leaves - up to twelve yellow flowers huddle near the end of 10 inch spikes - bright yellow tails create a spidery effect. Mature.


 
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This item is a recent addition Platystele aurea - Intermediate - Potted - Colombia - $ 18
2 inch plant with small bright orange blossoms around base - blooms often with lots of flowers. Mature.


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 Platystele misera - Intermediate - Potted - Colombia - $ 18
3 to 4 inch plant produces spikes up to 8 inches - perfect ¼ inch star-shaped flowers are buff colored with a bright magenta lip - flowers successively over long period several times a year. Mature.


 
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 Platystele ximenae - Intermediate to Cool - Mounted - Ecuador - $ 20
2 inch attractive spoon-shaped leaves are light green tinged with purple - long wore-like distichous stems sequentially produce 1/8 inch star-shaped yellow flowers with a red center. Mature.


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This item is a recent addition Pleurothallis amparoana - Intermediate to Warm - Potted - Costa Rica - $ 25
Nicknamed the fuzzy toilet seat - sprays of bowl-shaped creamy white flowers are coated with white hairs inside - blooms at least twice a year. Mature.


 
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 Pleurothallis cf. minutalis - Intermediate - Mounted - Tropical Americas - $ 20
3 inch olive green leaves have dark purple on reverse - dark red, maroon and white flowers bloom at base - blooms often with lots of flowers Mature.


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 Pleurothallis condorensis - Intermediate - Potted - Ecuador - $ 25
Flattened 4 inch stems hold atractive 2 inch heart-shaped leaves - flowers are born sequentially for weeks sitting at the end of a 1 inch thin stems - each ½ inch blossom is white with deep purple bands and has dorsal sepal and petals pointing forward. Mature.


 
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 Pleurothallis janetiae - Intermediate - Potted - Costa Rica - $ 25
A showy miniature with repent wiry stems bearing large crystalline cream flowers spotted with red - blooms successively for months. Mature.


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This item is a recent addition Pleurothallis maduroi - Intermediate - Potted - Panama - $ 25
Large showy pink flower is born in succession on top of shiny heart shaped leaf - often blooms with two flowers at the same time - rapid grower - uncommon - divisions. Mature.


 
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This item is a recent addition Pleurothallis mystax - Intermediate - Potted - Panama - $ 25
Widespread lateral sepals beneath nose-like lip resembles a mustache - ½ inch flower has a red central stripe and blooms successively on winsome 3 inch plant. Mature.


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 Pleurothallis palliolata - Intermediate - Potted or Mounted - Panama - $ 18
Hooded large pink flower sits on shiny leaf like a frog on a lily pad. Blooming Size.


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 Pleurothallis producta - Intermediate - Potted - Ecuador - $ 15
Small plant with 2 inch leaves - 6 inch sprays of white flowers - blooms often. Mature.


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 Pleurothallis radula 'Leon' - Intermediate - Potted - Costa Rica - $ 18
Mature plants have 5 inch stiff elongated heart shape leaves on 8 inch stems - lemon yellow flower with orange lip juts from upright bract. Near Blooming Size.


 
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 Pleurothallis sarracenia - Intermediate - Mounted - Brazil - $ 22
Vining miniature produces two purple and green fuzzy flowers which face each other from base of leaves - resembles two slugs kissing. Mature.


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 Pleurothallis tribuloides - Warm - Potted or Mounted - Central America - $ 20
Known as the 'lobster-claw orchid' - bright dark orange flowers emerge from base of two inch leaves and point upward - tidy clumps grow expand rapidly. Mature.


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 Pleurothallis wagnerii - Intermediate to Warm - Potted - Panama - $ 25
In bud! six to eight nice sized mahogany flowers bloom simultaneously on each inflorescence - 5 inch plant - fragrant - showy and long lasting and blooms twice a year. Mature.


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 Porroglossum eduardii 'Posada' - Intermediate to Cool - in Net Pots - Colombia - $ 45
Individual 2 inch purplish leaves have a rough upper surface and grow along a rambling rhizome - two or three flowers often appear on each upright stem and are brilliant orange - uncommon and showy. Mature.


 
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 Porroglossum muscosum 'Dark Angel' - Intermediate - Potted - Colombia - $ 25
2 inch dark green rough textured leaves are blushed with purple on reverse - 4 to 5 inch flower stems are covered in fine hairs - starry flowers have trap-like lip that shuts when disturbed - this clone is a rich bronze color that is darker than the norm. Mature.


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 Restrepiella ophiocephala - Warm - Potted - Central America - $ 20
Stately plants reach 8 to 12 inches in height - single ½ inch gaping flowers are born at base of leaf and are produced in succession over many weeks - this is an attractive dark red form. Mature.


 
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 Scaphosepalum anchoriferum aberrant - Intermediate - in Net Pots - Costa Rica - $ 18
Dark maroon flowers with coppery thickened pads - on this unusual form the horn-like tails curl backwards - blooms sequentially over a long period - long wiry stems. Mature.


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 Scaphosepalum rapax - Intermediate - Mounted - Ecuador - $ 20
Attractive 1 inch pointed leaves send out many pendent wiry spikes - individual ram's head flowers are densely speckled with maroon. Mature.


 
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 Scaphosepalum swertifolium 'Long Tails' - Intermediate - in Net Pots - South America - $ 20
5 to 6 inch plant with soft green leaves - body of the flower is yellow spotted with red - sepals form brahma bull-like horns - flowers appear successively on wiry stems over a long time period. Mature.


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 Stelis jamesonii - Intermediate - Mounted - Ecuador - $ 18
Vigorous plants with pretty rounded leaves - 3 to 4 inch sprays produce many small copper colored blossoms - frequent bloomer. Mature.


 
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 Stelis langlassei - Intermediate - Potted - Ecuador - $ 20
6 inch plant has 3 inch ovate leaves - newest leaves are tinged with red - frequent sprays of greenish white flowers have a light pink blush - old leaves repeat bloom. Mature.


 
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This item is a recent addition Trichosalpinx chamaelepanthes red - Intermediate - Mounted - Ecuador - $ 25
Beautiful vining habit - blooms with many dark red flowers all up and down the stems - makes nice specimen plant - great for terrariums. Mature.


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 Trichosalpinx dirhamphis - Intermediate - Potted - Ecuador - $ 20
Slightly spreading plant produces numerous 3 inch inflorescences densely flowered with bright yellow blooms. Mature.


 
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This item is a recent addition Trisetella gemmata - Intermediate - Mounted - Colombia - $ 20
1 ½ inch miniature with tufted terete leaves and large garnet flowers - will repeat bloom on the same stem. Mature.


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 Zootrophion atropurpurea - Intermediate to Warm - Potted - Ecuador - $ 20
4 inch stems are clothed in papery sheaths - glossy ruby red turtle-head flowers bloom from base of 2 inch ovate leaf - floriferous. Mature.


 
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 Zootrophion dayanum - Intermediate - Potted - Ecuador - $ 20
3 inch round paddle-shapped leaves on 6 inch plant - 2 ½ to 3 inch flowers bloom at junction of leaf and stem - deep maroon flowers have large open side slit with shiny red tongue - unusual and showy - blooms several times a year. Mature.


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This item is a recent addition Zootrophion serpentinum - Intermediate - Mounted - Ecuador - $ 20
Pendent chains of 1 inch green leaves produce large ovoid silver flowers heavily spotted and marked with burgundy. Mature.


 
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Tribe: VANDEAE
Subtribe: AERIDINAE

 

 Chiloschista segawae - Intermediate to Warm - Mounted - Thailand - $ 25
Up to fifteen ½ inch yellow green flowers descend from leafless plant - attractive silver grey roots. Mature.


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Subfamily: SPIRANTHOIDEAE
Tribe: CRANICHIDEAE
Subtribe: GOODYERINAE

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 Anoectochilus chapaensis - Warm - Potted - China - $ 20
Showy bright yellow tubular flowers - black velvet leaves irregularly striped with red - good for windowsill or frog vivarium Mature.


 
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Updated: 5/22/2013