Flowers for gifts
Given for love, thanks, birthdays, visits and apologies.
Miltonia
Medium-large Brazilian orchids with showy, long-lasting flowers
🇧🇷 Brazil and 2 more · Orchid
Curled OncidiumOncidium alexandrae
A cool-growing Colombian orchid with crisped white or rose flowers
🇨🇴 Colombia · Orchid
Cattleya schroederae
A fragrant Colombian orchid that blooms around Easter
🇨🇴 Colombia · Orchid
Papilionanthe Miss Joaquim
The national orchid of Singapore, known for year-round blooming
🇸🇬 Singapore · Garden flower
Boat orchidCymbidium
A genus of long-lived orchids with boat-shaped lips, grown worldwide for their sprays of blooms
🇮🇳 India and 6 more · Orchid
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Miltonia: Dalton Holland Baptista, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Curled Oncidium: Dick Culbert, CC BY 2.0, source
- Cattleya schroederae: Frederick Sander, Public domain, source
- Papilionanthe Miss Joaquim: Calvin Teo ., CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Boat orchid: Rohit Naniwadekar, CC BY-SA 4.0, source