Content
- Popular orchids and their popular names - an overview
- Exotic Orchids - How to reconcile scientific and German names
- Native orchids with scientific and german names
- Tips
Even if the name scares off: the spider orchid is a particularly bizarre beauty
Popular orchids and their popular names - an overview
Orchid experts clap their hands together when the vernacular gives the most beautiful orchid species their own names. Nevertheless, some apt German names for orchids have prevailed, which we can remember well even without a big Latinum.The following overview introduces common names.
Exotic Orchids - How to reconcile scientific and German names
Since orchids have conquered the super and DIY stores, the scientific titles are increasingly in the background and make way for sales-promoting German names. In order to reconcile both versions, we have compiled the following overview for you:
In addition, regional trivial names have established themselves, which should make the purchase of orchids on flower markets palatable. If you are specifically looking for a special orchid, only the scientific name is an undoubted guideline.
Native orchids with scientific and german names
While the exotic names of orchids can be largely subscribed to a single trivial name, among the native orchids there is a floral tower to Babel. The following selection gives an overview:
From the exotic orchids Cypripedium calceolus is the only one of its kind so well adapted to our climate that it can be found in fields and woods. Her most famous German names are Yellow Lady's Slipper, Lady's Lady's Shoe, Red Brown Lady's Slipper or European Lady's Slipper.
Tips
In addition to the scientific names for orchid species, other technical terms from Latin and Greek for the successful care of importance. If one speaks of an epiphytic orchid, it is a potted plant of trees in the rainforest. Terrestrial species thrive as Erdorchideen. Lithophytic orchids favor a place on rocks and other rocks.