Queen of orchids in black forest

Nature has generously given them orchids an extraordinary beauty, and the diversity of flowers has stunned people since ancient times to the present day. Indeed Orchidaceae family is like the queen of beauty because of the beauty of the beautiful flower bunches, colorful and sweet aroma, the looseness of the trunk as inviting. Orchid is always the passion of every stage in society because of the need to enjoy the pure beauty of nature.

>>>The strange world of orchids

Among more than 1000 orchid species discovered by botanists in Vietnam, the diversity of our orchids is worthy of attention and protection. Of the hundreds of orchids, each species has an arrogant beauty with different vibrant colors. However, in Vietnam, there are some exotic black or black violet orchids.

1. Black parasol Bulbophyllum nigrescens

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Black parasol Bulbophyllum nigrescens - (Photo: Nguyen Thi Lien Thuong)

This tiny petal orchid can only see its lips and feathers under a macro lens. Usually grows on an altitude of 1500m or more with strip-shaped leaves in the top, oblong at the base forming short stalks. Small, small inflorescences 30 - 40mm long with white chalks arranged regularly at the top, growing down, dark black, close to the same branch, with slender feathers. The colon has more hair. Tongue blades, curved and feathered on the edge as a gift of natural gift.

2. Spiky orchid mo Bulbophyllum spadiciflorum

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Spicy orchid mo Bulbophyllum spadicifloru - (Photo: Nguyen Thi Lien Thuong)

With inflorescences clustered from fake root, general stalks are bulky, bulging up to 50cm long and adorned with many small flowers, yellowish-green with purple stripes, wide, curved wings, purple-edged lips black. This orchid blooming in May usually lives in the birthing tree at the height of nearly 2000 meters around the year covered by fog. If you are not a researcher about orchids, you can hardly identify them in nature

3. How to spread the black flower Sunipia nigricans

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Covering the black flowers Sunipia nigricans - (Photo: Nguyen Thi Lien Thuong)

About 3-4 months every year, these dark purple flowers with a very unpleasant smell are showing off in Phong Tho - Lai Chau area. With narrow oblong leaves, 4 - 10cm long, 1cm wide, sharp peaks, oblong stem with 1cm long stalks, quite long flower cluster, black purple including lips. This is a new orchid species discovered by orchid researchers in December 2007 and is a rare species of orchid in the wild nature of Vietnam.

4. Orchid velvet Trichotosia dalatensis

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Trichotosia dalatensis - (Photo: Nguyen Thi Lien Thuong)

Lan lives birthing, small, easy body, with roots in the root and erect stems are narrow endemic species only found in Lam Dong Viet Nam. With narrow, narrow leaves, 1cm long, covered with gray hair, inflorescences at the top and outside of the petals covered with feathers, dark dark black. The lips have 2 dark spots and brown lines, the edge of the commandment. Because it is endemic and very small flowers, to admire the beauty of this orchid is a difficulty even for orchid researchers.

5. Long beam orchid Bulbophyllum lemniscatoides

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Long-beam orchid Bulbophyllum lemniscatoides - (Photo: Nguyen Thi Lien Thuong)

Worthy of being a masterpiece of long-spread orchid creation at first glance like a multicolored turban of Arab girls. Small inflorescences close together, dark purple, hairy. oblong, long, spread out 3 corners. Dark red lips, curved. And there is a sweet scent worth giving us to admire the precious gift of Vietnamese nature.

6. Lan spider coral Luisia antennifera

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Orchid coral Luisia antennifera - (Photo: Nguyen Thi Lien Thuong)

The lips almost turn black look like the back of a spider and grow on the body. Spiders of coral spiders have cylindrical stems and leaves. Leaves are far apart, sharp, longer than 10cm, burned on coal. The long, curved wings of the wings look like spider legs that are well worth a look at the beautiful drawing of one of the black queens of the green forest.

7. Lan misleading Bulbophyllum secundum

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Lanophilic Bulbophyllum secundum - (Photo: Nguyen Thi Lien Thuong)

Not as gorgeous as other orchids because the inflorescences are too small for our naked eyes to see. Leaning of the living surface, soft rhizomes. Fake bulbs are flat, smooth, top with 1 leaf. Leaf shape, oblong at the base of short stalk. The inflorescence is longer, longer and taller than the leaves. Flowers are many, small, one side. The flowers are red and purple and black. Petals with feathers. The tongue-shaped lip is black, has hair on the ledge and its flowering time is 'too short' to admire this orchid bloom and fade away as a measure of your patience.