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1. Pink Orchid

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According to Wikipedia orchids are easily distinguished from other plants, as they share some very evident traits. Among these are bilateral symmetry, many resupinate flowers (upside-down, supine, facing upward), a nearly always highly modified petal, fused stamens and carpels and have extremely small seeds. They look awesomely pretty too!

2. PHALAENOPSIS Bellina

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It's amazing how orchids can mimic insects and other things. Can you see Gimli from LOTR beneath the alien creature?

3. Dark Purple Orchid

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Orchids have such incredible colors. They range from the most delicate white to black.

4. Pineapple Flower

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An orchid found in Hawaii. So aptly constructed and named.

5. Pink Orchids

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The range of pinks in orchids is stunning, from barely pink to the deepest reds.

6. Vanda 'Exotic Purple'

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The variegated orchids are always stunning.

7. Masdevallia REICHENBACHIANA Orchid

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Some of the color palettes are almost unreal.

8. Little Purple Orchids

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Some orchids are huge and showy. Others are sweet and delicate.

9. Orchid Cluster

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Some of the smaller orchids grow in clumps on branches rather than on single stems.

10. White Feather Orchid

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Isn't it spectacular?

11. Caladenia Longicauda

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Forget the scientific name - just call it the spider orchid.

12. Wild Yellow Orchids

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Glorious sunny flowers from the sunshine islands of Hawaii.

13. Medusa Orchid

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I love the names orchids are given.

14. Laelia Alaorii

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This stunning orchid, which looks so like a daffodil, is native to Brazil.

15. Strike a Pose

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It looks like a ballerina in the fifth position.

16. Flying Duck Orchid

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The Caleana is native to Australia.

17. Cymbidium

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AKA the boat orchid, this one - of which there are hundreds of variations - is found widely in tropical and subtropical Asia and Australia. I think this one is the Dorothy Stockstill.

18. Pink ThIngs ...

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... attract other pink things.

19. Laeliocattleya

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The Ana Ingham orchids are hybrids of Brazilian orchids.

20. Radiant Orchid

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Here's a perfect example of that "upside down flower" structure.

21. Kiwi Midnight 'Geyserland'

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This is another of the cymbidium orchids.

23. Masdevallia Rosea

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And this is found in Ecuador and Bolivia.

24. Black Bat Orchid

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The color of this one is amazing.

25. Bee-Orchid

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The Ophrys orchids are Northern Hemisphere plants.

26. Darth Vader Orchid

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I've no idea which species this is but it sure looks like Darth Vader.

27. Black Orchids

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Some black orchids are natural, others have been cultivated and even others, dyed.

28. Court Jester

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This is one of the phragmipedium orchids - also known as the lady's slipper orchids.

29. Deep Pink Orchids

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The delicate, exotic and graceful orchid represents love, luxury, beauty and strength

30. Ghost Orchid

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This charmer is found only in Florida and Cuba.

31. ANGULOA UNIFLORA

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You can see why these are called baby in a blanket.

32. Ruby Leopard Slipper Orchid

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One of the most highly colored of all orchids (and it doesn't need photoshopping).

33. Orange Cymbidium

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A stunning orange variety of boat orchid.

34. Glistening Sun-Orchid

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The Thelymitra orchids are called sun orchids because they only open in warm weather.

35. White Orchids

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Simply... stunningly... beautiful.

36. Monkey Orchid

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The monkey orchid is usually found in the cloud forests of Peru and Ecuador.

37. Butterfly Orchid

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They really do deserve these names, don't they?

38. Cattleya

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There are 113 members of the cattleya family and they grow in the Caribbean and from Costa Rica southwards.

39. Dendrobium Orchids

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This is one of the 1,200 members of the Dendrobium family.

40. Butterfly-Spider Orchid

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The most striking of the Caladenia orchids are found in Australia.

41. Purple Orchid

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I love the leopard print effect on the petals.

42. Lady's Slipper Orchid

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They’re all so incredible.

14. Orquidea Phalaenopsis

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These are known as moth orchids.

With so many thousand varieties of orchids, you really could never get bored of seeing all the differences. Do you have a love of orchids?