ORCHID SPECIES
Based on the general growth of orchids are divided into 2 types:
• Orchid Simpodial:
Usually horizontal growth pattern like vines. Stem called rhizome growth. Rhizome lying horizontally on the soil surface and roots grow in length about the direction of decreasing rhizome and create a vertical bar above the so-called pseudo bulbs (Pseudobulb). There was a Pseudobulb extending upwards like stem (cane), and some are short and round or flat.
One of the functions of Pseudobulb is a place where water and nutrients. Creased Pseudobulb is a sign that the plant has experienced problems in the absorption of water.
Each Pseudobulb have one to several leaves.
New shoots emerge from the basic old Pseudobulb and the growing point is called "eye" (eye).
In Pseudobulb kind of short and round, there are wrapped by the stem of the leaf (sheath) which of these Pseudobulb base rates would appear, for example: Coelogyne, Oncidium.
In rod-shaped Pseudobulb (cane), the flower stalks will emerge from the tip of the stem, for example: dendrobium.
• Orchid Monopodial:
Orchids that grow upwards from a single stem (stem). The leaves will grow on the tip of the rod in his life. This type of rhizome and has no Pseudobulb, and usually grow roots air (aerial root) from along the stems.
Flower stalks (spikes / inflorescence) grown from the trunk and starts from the bottom (not the tip), different from the sympodial (dendrobium) where the flowers grow from the end of the rod.
If the tip of the stem damaged by decay (example: type phalaenopsis), or cut / distek (example: Vanda species), the new stems will emerge from the old stems and leaves will grow from the new bar.

Based on the growth, orchids are divided into several types:
• epiphyte:
Growing Angrek ride on other plants but not parasitic (does not take nutrients from the plant). Thus the orchid will gain a better position to get a better light. Roots attached to the branches and get water only from rain and fog.
• Lithophyte:
Orchids that grow on rocks. They use stones as a grip.
• Saprophyte:
Orchid that grows in humus and dead leaves.
• Terrestrial:
Orchids that grow on the prairie, the soil humus in the forest.

Based on air temperature range is appropriate, orchids are divided into 3 types:
• Orchid cold temperatures (mountains, altitude 2000-4000m): grows well at a temperature of 15-21 ° C during the day and 10-13 ° C at night.
Example: Cymbidium, Masdevallia, Miltonia, Odontoglossum, Oncidium, Paphiopedilum
• Orchid temperature was (plateau, 750-2000m): grows well at a temperature of 21-32 ° C during the day and 13-18 ° C at night.
Example: Brassavola, Cattleya, Dendrobium, Epidendrum, Laelia, Paphiopedilum (molted leaves)
• Orchid heat (lowland, 0-750m): grows well at a temperature of 26-35 ° C during the day and 18-24 ° C at night.
Example: Phalaenopsis, Vanda, Dendrobium some kind.