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Increasing the awareness, appreciation, enjoyment, conservation, and cultivation of orchids

Meetings are held at 7pm on the second Friday of every month at the Live Oak Grange Hall, 1900 17th Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95062. Come Join us!
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Santa Cruz Orchid Society @scorchidsociety.bsky.social · Nov 13
Meeting this Friday! We're talking Lycastes.

Tim Culbertson will speak on the genus Lycaste, most especially, the smaller cooler growing varieties. These are wonderful plants to grow here in Santa Cruz.

Photo: Lycaste aromatica, grown by our Acting Pres. Vicky Smith

#santacruz #orchids #lycaste
A Lycaste orchid growing in bark in a clay pot with leafless flattened pear-shaped pseudobulbs. Over a dozen lemon-yellow flowers emerging from the base of the pseudobulbs. The sepals are greenish yellow with green tips. The petals and sepals are a golden yellow. Nascent new growths are also starting to grow beneath the flowers.
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Cymbidium sinense is a wonderful, small growing species with very strongly scented flowers that have one of the sweetest fragrances of any flower. I can smell these blooms from across the room. This is relatively easy to grow and bloom by orchid standards. #orchids #bloomscrolling
February 6, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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Tolumnia #orchid at the orchid society meeting. They're really small plants.
A cluster of raspberry colored orchid flowers
February 2, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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Today’s #orchid:
A pretty pink Vanda, grown and photographed by one of our members.
February 2, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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As it’s Sunday evening and there are lots of botanists around who may like #orchids here’s Dendrochilum cobbianum for you to count the flowers! Glasshouse at @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social 😉
February 1, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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Paphiopedilum Golden Palace is a hybrid of Memoria Larry Heuer x armeniacum. This cultivar has low quality flowers, but it blooms frequently, grows easily, and stays small. Mottled foliage is stunning and the bright yellow flowers bring a spark of color to my plant stands. #orchids #bloomscrolling
Paphiopedilum Golden Palace is a hybrid of Paph. Memoria Larry Heuer x Paph. armeniacum. The bright yellow flower has a slipper shaped lip and a fascinating red-orange tessellated yellow staminode. This is a close up of the flower with over head grow lights shining down and out of focus grassy foliage of other orchids in the background. Photo showing the dark green mottled foliage of Paphiopedilum Golden Palace with the flower on a medium length flower spike hanging above the leaves. Leaves have a distinctive and aesthetically pleasing appearance.
January 31, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Paphiopedilum Deperle

#orchids #bloomscrolling #flowers #slipperorchid #blooms
A single pink and white lady's lipped orchid with a touch of yellow on the dorsal sail and an orange throat
January 31, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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This Maxillaria hematoglossa is always a reliable bloomer for me 😍 not the biggest orchid bloom but a cool one!
January 19, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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Marcia hart brought in this lovely Maxillaria variabilis to our last meeting in January’s Show and Tell. She received 1st place in the Advanced category.

#orchid #orchids #photography #nature #flower #bluesky #houseplants #gardening
January 19, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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My Masdevallia descendens mini orchid has been working hard and putting out some really beautiful new leaves. It's filling out its space in the large terrarium nicely.

#orchid
#orchids
A healthy looking Masdevallia descendens orchids mounted on a wood branch in a large terrarium. Surrounded by moss and other assorted mini orchids and plants.
January 9, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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New Cymbidium seedlings coming into flower. This is Cym. Oxnard Cutie with blush pink stripes. 🌱

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation
January 8, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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Calypso bulbosa, our Fairy Slipper orchid, blooming above Clinton Gulch Dam Reservoir #nativeplants #orchids

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to July 8 🌿
Two purple-splotched pink and white orchids
January 8, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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Some orchids from our society meeting today #orchids #orchid #bloom
January 9, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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Our next meeting is tonight at 7pm!

At this month's meeting, Ron Parsons will visit us here in Santa Cruz to speak on the Orchids of Southeastern Australia.

Our meeting is at the Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA

See you there!

#santacruz #orchids
Ron Parsons, our speaker this month The orchid Dendrobium speciosum. The plant consists of several cigar-shaped pseudobulbs with leathery leaves. Growing out of the pseudobulbs are clusters of many cream white flowers
January 9, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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#SevenOnSunday Zygopetalum 🤗 (including a Jumping Jack for a certain someone I can’t find on here… @uk-boothby.bsky.social @wolf71758.bsky.social )
December 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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In other jewel #orchids terrarium news, the silvery jewel orchid Goodyera viridiflora is blooming waaaay in the back. The flowers are intricate and cute, but unobtrusive. Once I show it to my fellow nerds at the orchid club meeting next Wednesday, I'll probably cut it off in favor of leafy vibes. 🌱🪴
A spike of greenish orchid flowers that have a hood shielding a little white lip and two pointy lower petals with faint stripes.
January 6, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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Paphiopedilum Hsinying Alien

#orchids #bloomscrolling #flowers #slipperorchid #paph
Slipper orchid flower: dark reddish brown shoe with a green tip, dorsal sail is white with purple stripes shading to a green center, arms have black spots
January 6, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Cymbidium URG (Jimmy Durrante x Memoria Stuart Sperber) first flowering with lovely orange hues🧡 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation
January 5, 2026 at 6:53 AM
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More first flowering today - Anoectochilus formosanus - a jewel orchid growing in our warm house which just a seedling at present but will enjoy seeing this batch flourish. 🌱

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation
January 6, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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Happy New Year!
Tolumnia Jairak Rainbow
#orchids #bloomscrolling #flowers #yellow #blooms
4 small orchid flowers, yellow with large dark brown spots with very large lips, against a light gray background
January 1, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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In Bloom: Phrag. Fritz Schomburg (kovachii x besseae). Phragmipediums are native to South America and can be found growing alongside riverbanks and other wet places. I've had this one since 2020.
#orchids
January 2, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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Onc. tsiku marguerite 'yearning'

this name tug only says "yearning", but i see 'Chian-Tzy Yearning' more. idk which is correct.🤷‍♀
bought it at the world orchid show 2025 last Feb in Tokyo.
#orchids #蘭 #らん
January 4, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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Dracula verticulosa - another new species for us flowering for the first time. This Colombian species has interesting colourings and grows in the cloud forest at elevations of 1800m. 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation
January 4, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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Dendrobium lindleyi flowering a little early this year. I keep it outside in autumn until the first frost is forecast, then hang it about 8ft high in the greenhouse with absolutely no water until it flowers. 🌱 🌴 #orchids
Orange orchid flowers, each with a big flat labellum. They hang on semi-pendant inflorescences arching out from a terracotta pot.
January 4, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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These can be found locally to our area as well! Stunning
frwildflowers.bsky.social FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · Dec 29
Corallorhiza maculata, our Spotted Coralroot, blooming above the East Portal #nativeplants #orchids

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to June 29 🌿
Reddish-brown orchid flowers with purple-spotted white lips
January 4, 2026 at 12:27 AM
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Microtis parviflora (slender onion orchid) growing amongst the sun orchids at the back of the house - Corunna, NSW. Grows here alongside Microtis unifolia (common onion orchid) which has shorter flowering stems with more crowded flowers at this location. #orchids #ozplants
Microtis parviflora (slender onion orchid) growing amongst the sun orchids at the back of the house - Corunna, NSW.
December 30, 2025 at 7:47 AM