Red flowers
Roses, poppies, hibiscus, flame trees and tulips.
Fire star orchidEpidendrum radicans
A bright orange orchid that roots along its whole stem
🇲🇽 Mexico and 7 more · Orchid
Red DisaDisa uniflora
A striking red orchid from the mountain streams of South Africa
🇿🇦 South Africa · Wildflower
Ophrys sphegodes subsp. tauricaՍարդակիր Մեղվակիր, xarı-bülbül, ფუტკრის-დედა
A rare wild orchid from the Caucasus and nearby regions
🇦🇲 Armenia and 7 more · Wildflower
Rhynchostylis giganteaকপৌফুল
A fragrant orchid with dense, foxtail-like flower spikes from Southeast Asia
🇵🇭 Philippines and 7 more · Wildflower
Rothschild's slipper orchidPaphiopedilum rothschildianum
A rare orchid with wide-spread petals from Mount Kinabalu, Borneo
🇲🇾 Malaysia · Wildflower
Early spider-orchidOphrys sphegodes
A wild orchid with spider-like flowers found across Europe and the Middle East
🇪🇸 Spain and 6 more · Wildflower
Dactylorhiza
Wild orchids with spotted leaves and pink to red flowers
Dactylorhiza · Wildflower
Dracula
A genus of orchids with strange, long-tailed flowers from Central and South America
🇲🇽 Mexico and 6 more · Wildflower
Cattleya trianae
The national orchid of Colombia with petals in the flag’s colours
🇨🇴 Colombia · Wildflower
Epidendrum secundum
A South American orchid with dense clusters of colorful flowers
🇧🇷 Brazil and 3 more · Wildflower
Tulip orchidsAnguloa
Large, cinnamon-scented orchids from the Andes with tulip-shaped blooms
🇻🇪 Venezuela and 4 more · Wildflower
Blood red BroughtoniaBroughtonia sanguinea
A red-flowered orchid native to Jamaica’s trees and limestone soils
🇯🇲 Jamaica · Wildflower
Cattleya purpurata
A Brazilian orchid with large, fragrant flowers in many color forms
🇧🇷 Brazil · Orchid
Yellow lady's slipperCypripedium parviflorum
A wild North American orchid with a bright yellow pouch-shaped flower
🇨🇦 Canada and 2 more · Wildflower
Odontoglossum
A cool-growing cloud forest orchid genus, now folded into Oncidium
🇬🇾 Guyana · Orchid
Cuthbertson's DendrobiumDendrobium cuthbertsonii
A tiny high-altitude orchid with flowers that last up to ten months
Dendrobium cuthbertsonii · Orchid
Slipper orchidCypripedium
Hardy northern orchids with a pouch-shaped lower petal
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Wildflower
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Fire star orchid: Dick Culbert, CC BY 2.0, source
- Red Disa: Michael Gäbler, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ophrys sphegodes subsp. taurica: Nuvens, Public domain, source
- Dancing-lady orchid: Eric in SF, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rhynchostylis gigantea: Lars.Kurth, Public domain, source
- Common spotted orchid: Uoaei1, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rothschild's slipper orchid: Naoki Takebayashi, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Early spider-orchid: Velela, CC BY 2.5, source
- Dracula: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Epidendrum secundum: Filipe Fortes, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Tulip orchids: Zanerappa, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Blood red Broughtonia: Orchi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cattleya purpurata: Arne and Bent Larsen, Haarby, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.5 dk, source
- Yellow lady's slipper: Hardyplants at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Cuthbertson's Dendrobium: Alfindra Primaldhi, CC BY 2.0, source
- Slipper orchid: Beatriz Moisset, CC BY-SA 4.0, source